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SCISSORFIGHT "New Hampshire" Portsmouth, New Hampshire's loyal sons return with an opus to the state they call home. "New Hampshire" is not so much a concept album as it is a frame of mind. The credent tales of militias, fighting monkeys, outlaws and pirates is but only a slight look into this New England masterpiece. ----------------- Recorded September '99 (with Andrew Schneider/New Alliance Studios), "New Hampshire" battles to put some dirty rock and roll back on the New England map. After two albums (1996's "Guaranteed Kill", 1998's "Balls Deep" with Wonderdrug Records), gigs a plenty along the Eastern states and various prestigious accolades (a Boston Music Awards and a Boston Phoenix/WFNX Best Music Readers Poll award) Scissorfight has shed some skin and started anew with Boston's Tortuga Recordings. Live Free or Die. ----------------- With slide guitars and sideways glances, New England's own Scissorfight is looking to create a modest stir with its shamefully realized sense of groove. On the band's third album, it mixes an effortless blues crunch and boogie with a more insidious strain of vocal diversity; bearded front man Ironlung doesn't have octaves, he has manifold personalities. And the tales he weaves are brief but stunningly bizarre anecdotes of dogfighting monkeys and separatist compounds, paeans to piracy and Billy Jack movies, evoked vividly through an excess of nouns and repetition. The seeming minimalist wackiness of it all masks a razor-sharp wit; unlike the vacant postures of Southern isolationists Karma to Burn, there is a brain attached to the enigma. This and the rarified authenticity of its ruggedness bring to mind a less alpha-male Clutch, equally loopy and literate. Everything just feels as perfectly aged as Ted Nugent does ("Mountain Man Boogie" could even be an ode to the man, or a parody-you decide), nature-centric right down to the coarse texture and woodsy smell of the booklet itself. For a while, New Hampshire must take pride in the tribute paid by four of its most red-bodied sons-that is, until these screws come down the forested mountainside in a full-blown invasion of monster trucks. - Matthew Kirshner Ill Literature 1. Granit State Destroyer - [ mp3 ] 2. The Ballad of Jacco Macacco 3. Injection Site 4. Billy Jack Attack 5. Lamprey River 6. Cycloptic Skull 7. Roman Boxing Glove 8. The Gruesome Death of Edward Teach 9. Musk Ox 10. Mountain Man Boogie 11. Dead Thunderbird
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