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Album Review

Moco Out To Go
Skinny Dog

Article written by Ged M
Oct 10, 2004.

Moco finally get round to releasing an album and it’s a 34-minute pure shot of rock’n’roll, disclosing a life well spent in contemplation of Iggy and the Stooges and the Ramones. There’s also a strong Strokes influence (especially in Steve Jones’ vocals) but that affects everyone these days; just like “9/11” has become an annoying commonplace, now “post-Strokes” is attached to everything since ‘The Modern Age’ EP in January 2001. Often it’s meant perjoratively for those bands that rehash the nasal Casablancas vocals and the new wavey guitar riffs without a shred of original thought but not so with Moco. Even the two most Strokes-like tracks, ‘Where She Goes’ and ‘Flooky Wonderland’, are great power-poppy party tunes with all the energy of hyperactive children who’ve forgotten to take their Ritalin.

On the downside, ‘Early Miss Hurley’ is a set of cheap rhymes looking for a rhythm but most of the album suggests that Moco are in the premier league of the new guitar bands. ‘Loaded’ is a Saints-scented rocker that could go head to head with any of those Aussie/Kiwi bands (the Datsuns or the D4, for two) and win the dingo. ‘Out To Go’ has glam rock percussion and insanely squealing guitars to produce a dark and dirty garage classic. Former single ‘Miss Mantaray’ has a fabulous melodic twist but it would be good to hear more clearly the small town passions expressed in Steve Jones’ lyrics, in lines like: “David, who died, was a guy who never knew affection/ he went downstairs and grouted in the kitchen” (‘Baby When You Die’).

‘Baby When You Die’, their most recent single, represents the biggest hope for Moco. It’s a Morricone Western soundtrack with an insanely catchy chorus, twangy guitars and played at lightspeed. There’s a touch of Scally psychedelia to it, as if the Coral had overdosed on pies not pot. If there’s more of this pop gold to be mined from the Moco heads, they could end be being the biggest pop stars to come from the town since George Formby, Limahl and Mad Dicky Ashcroft.

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