Smirk - S/T – New LP

Essential listen, corelease from Feel It Records and Drunken Sailor Records, band featuring Nick Vicario (Public Eye, Crisis Man), the album with loads of variety and nonstop great cuts, sounding like a jaunt through the wooden-floor rooms and hallways of a big old house where the student ghetto hits the graveyard, edging toward anarchy if you could get your shoes on the right foot, all alone with yourself and your thoughts, the others have gone home, the rescue dog long-eared on the rug, the hamster running around the metal wheel in the other room, the music recalling some of the best of the UV-influenced underground-rock outfits from places like Ohio and New York in the mid 1970s but sounding fresh as the equinox breeze that pushes open the curtains and breaks the fever, the stench of sweated sheets still lingering like a nurse in the room but that just makes the ginger ale in the paper straw taste sweeter, the dark of sick and death still lurking like the metallic glint of an aggi