Do Me Bad Things - 'Time For Deliverance' (Must Destroy / Atlantic)
2/5
By: Lauren Gallagher
DMBT are an odd bunch. The entire outfit numbers nine people, some of whom declare their names to be 'Rich Man', 'Chantal Delusional', 'Hurricane Tommy', and 'The Woods'. The artwork for the single looks like a poster for a b-rate, 80's beach-staged rom-com, while the title notes the word 'deliverance'-implying a liberation of sorts.
So what are we to make of this? Is this unbridled pretension in sound, or fun? 'Time for Deliverance' is not a timid tune. Hair-metal guitar, resolute bass, and vocals, vocals, vocals, 80's, 80's, 80's. Trembling falsettos, question-answer choruses, chanting insists while femme vocals command it all. 'Slap Yourself' is similarly baroque, echoing Aerosmith riffs, and is more of an excuse to thrash (see lyrics 'everybody shake your body') than anything else. Funk/soul tries to invade 'Barrytown', but fails with shrill, occasionally flat, vocals killing what might have been.
You can have fun to DMBT, but whether or not they're crashing barriers with a new clatter, or just nine people being exceptionally loud, is debatable. Two stars, unless you're a lost child of the 80's, in which case you'd probably give them five.
Artists in this article: Do Me Bad Things
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