EXBATS - I Got The Hots For Charlie Watts LP

Nicely priced. One copy only.

Highly recommended.

The ExBats bear the rare distinction of being a daddy-daughter band. Pops Kenny McLain is on the guitar and daughter Inez McLain handles drums and vocals. An unusual setup often begats an unusual recording and to its credit, the groups second-ish album, I got the hots for Charlie Watts is a weirder record. Yet, paradoxically, the weirdness is built off classic sounding base.

No doubt, this pair is influenced by garage rock and the early punk scene. “I was in your video,” with its easy goovin’ psychedelic buzz-n-clack could be dropped onto a Nazz record and no one would be the wiser. Opening jam, “2027,” kicks off with a charge and stays at the high velocity for the whole duration, subsisting on the adrenaline snap of the earliest west coat punkers.