Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll (2005)

Every now and then, a rock and roll band comes along, which not only reinvents the whole genre, but turns it upside down. So did Art Brut, on Bang Bang Rock & Roll.  They caricature and corrupt all rock conventions of the past 40 years, yet ironically manage to deliver music that's still gonna kick you in your whore ass! Hilarious lyrics ("I wanna be the man who writes the song, that makes Israel and Palestine get along"), unexpected songwriting and riffs that sound like shooting yourself in the face with a sawed-off shotgun make the British quartet's debut album  the most enyojable rock record of the past decade. 

1.) Formed a Band

2.) My Little Brother

3.) Emily Kane

4.) Rusted Guns of Milan

5.) Modern Art

6.) Good Weekend

7.) Bang Bang Rock & Roll

8.) Fight!

9.) Moving to L.A.

10.) Bad Weekend

11.) Stand Down

12.) 18,000 Lira

Reverend Deadeye - The Trials and Tribulations of Reverend Deadeye (2010)

Not much is known about Reverend Deadeye except for the fact that he is an actual preacher working in a Navajo reservation somewhere in Arizona, and that he got his name because of an accident in which a snake bit him in his left eye, leaving it blind. 

His music sounds like a bastard son of Tom Waits and the White Stripes; voice and riffs as muddy as the bottom of the Mississippi Delta. Never in my life have I heard anything as dirty and fucked as this whiskey-soaked excorcism of a blues record. 2 Thumbs up!

1.) Can't Take it With You

2.) Backstabbin' Savior

3.) Chased ol' Satan

4.) Drunk on Jesus

5.) Coldest Heart

6.) Led His Children out of Bondage

7.) Jesus on the Mainline

8.) Her Heart Belongs to the Wind

9.) Drinkin' on the Buildin'

10.) Train Medley