Independent rock and roll seems cleanly cleaved into a couple different groups, at least when it comes to the role sex plays: asexual well-behaved (largely) pale dudes in skinny jeans and hyper-sexual bad boys, also largely pale and donning the ever-present skinny jeans. Electric Tickle Machine falls clearly into the latter category, with lyrics about pussy power and disease complemented by a sex-pout style seen on frontmen throughout the history of rock. I mean, shit, their debut release, Blew It Again, has a faceless lassie’s not quite covered at all breasts featured pretty darn prominently on the cover!
Complete with loud messy guitars, a rich layering of sound, and some pretty killer drumming, the songs on Blew It Again strikes me as something The Flaming Lips could’ve recorded in the 90s had they moved away from psychadelia toward semi-mainstream indie rock style rather than avant garde art rock. This is particularly true for the title track as well as “Part of Me,” while “Gimme Money” seems to have a touch of The Clash in it.
Electric Tickle Machine sound like your jam? Then check them out as they continue on their cross-country tour. They hit Citizen Dick hometown Cleveland TONIGHT with a gig at Now That’s Class, and continue westward to the Pacific Northwest, down south through California, and back east through Texas to tour ender Memphis.
Electric Tickle Machine – Blew It Again
