The Toot Toot Toots
OUTLAWS
Spooky Records
Billed
as a “spaghetti western rock opera”, Melbourne alt.country/rock quintet The
Toot Toot Toots’ debut record is, as is evident after only a cursory listen, in
a league of its own. The whiskey-soaked
vocals of Giuliano Ferla are so grotesque, you can’t help but acutely feel the
pain, the glory, the bloodshed and vengeance of central character Eli Rayne as
the record chronicles his (mis)adventures in the fictitious gold rush township
of Gomorrah Fields.
Behind
Ferla a thundering beat reigns supreme, mariachi horns and barbed-wire guitars
run amok, it’s a veritable rumble of a record. The fact the band have attempted something so adventurous as
a concept record to release first up shows they’re not ones to sit idly by,
preferring instead to produce some of the best doom country you’ll hear all
year.
Samuel J. Fell
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