The Fleshtones

Loose, sloppy and almost dublike, the Fleshtones' new album, Hexbreaker!, is a
rearview-mirror study in fun. The particular musical intersection in question is located in
the mid-Sixties, when the progeny of the baby-boom decade were first driven to a feverish
frenzy with speed and plunged into epistemological chaos with LSD. Some might call the
music of that brief era acid-punk, and listening to Hexbreaker! is a psychotically... More >

Fun is a fine principle, but it works better when you start with the fun than when you start with the principle, which is why so much theoretically unpretentious rock and roll sounds forced anyway. Gets harder with every album, too. This is number three. (Grade - B-)