Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
For those of us who remember VietNam – the exceptionally ratty-looking greasy-haired guys who worked at Spider House that were too hip even for themselves and who a year or so later on tour could barely speak a coherent sentence let alone remember your name – it turns out they’re still alive and have a new self-titled full-length record to release on Kemado in January 2007.
The album is familiar territory for the band but seemingly more sincere and mature than their Vice recordings hipster candy EP The Concrete’s Always Greyer on the Other Side of the Street. The addition of Michael Foss on drums and Ivan Berko on bass adds some much needed meat to the core duo of Michael Gerner and Josh Grubb who have refined their careless, raspy vocals, and distorted, jangle blues guitars to produce a listenable album filled with hazy, psychedelic, mustached hipster sermons.
– dániel perlaky
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