URGE OVERKILL – STULL
EP (TOUCH AND GO)
Urge Overkill was
always a niche band from Chicago
Stull is the six song
EP released in 1992 which was reportedly found in a Dutch record shop by Quentin Tarantino one
day and being the original home to their cover of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman
Soon” it would have been the first place he heard the track ahead of including
it in a pivotal scene in Pulp
Fiction. It was a very strong
selection to cover exhibiting both a telling message in the lyrics and a huge
vocal delivery demanded in order to command the punch Diamond constructed. And the band pulls it off to amazing ends.
Picking up the charge
the second track “Stull (Part 1)” is equally cool offering a dragged out and
measured approach to proceedings solidifying their search for soul and solid
ability to attain it. The journey is a
good one, a safe five minute drive of definition and reassurance. There is courtesy in refinement.
The process steps up
with “Stitches” and a near punk track along lines of The Clash/Rancid that
expresses the desire to “kill somebody just for fun” while namechecking both
the Manson Family and the Son Of Sam killer.
This I am informed is their take on “Stitches In My Head/I Wanna Kill
Somebody” originally by The
Alan Milman Sect.
“What’s This
Generation” begins with what has come to be the trademark drum sound of Steve Albini and Electrical Audio although it comes
as quite some surprise to discover that it actually is not one of his recording
jobs. This band learns well even if this
is a scratchy mess of a track coupled with a horrible fade out at the close.
Another single appears
in the form of “(Now
That’s) The Barclord” which was previously a Sub Pop Singles Club release. Sounding like an Elvis Costello track it is a solid new
wave work out exhibiting gestures towards better taste.
It all ends with
“Goodbye To Guyville” which was a concept borrowed/adopted by Liz Phair whose
debut album was called Exile
In Guyville. It’s a swift, slick and
breezy strain. Smooth, introspective and
slow moving it is very Afghan Whigs in execution.
This is the sound of
getting what you want.
Thesaurus moment:
luxury.
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