Despite opting for a band name that sounds like the sort of thing that Friedrich Nietzsche might have chosen had he made a run for the pop charts, “Oh Yeah” proves to be less intense and less gloomy than the makers’ maudlin moniker suggests.
Okay, I’m not saying that intensity and gloom are not found running through its sonic DNA, but so too is groove and intrigue, wit as well as wisdom, the poetic and the profound. And the result is a scuzzy, low-slung slice of pop-noir that vocally sounds like Andrew Eldritch doing his best Jacques Brel impression and sonically suggests The Gun Club playing it straight, less rockabilly, more demonic grunge-pop. MORE