These Booby Traps are a rockin, trashy garage punk combo from down under, not the US east coast boy bar band. Oh yeah, and these Booby Traps really know how to kick up a storm. The girls look like they were dressed by the Hives, and sound like they were trained by The Pandoras. The boys are all in black, and their sound is deep, dark, driving and definitley bad ass.
It's all pure rock-n-roll. You can hear echoes of the Who and the Stones, and lots of early rock influences like Bo Diddley. But there's also the fuzzed up swagger of the garage revivalists of the 80's like The Pandoras, The Chesterfield Kings, The Fuzztones and so on.
Their second LP Makin It with the Booby Traps bowed in '08 and is a floor stompin, hip shakin', go-go inducing album that showcases the snarly, yet girlish vocals of Carrie, whose voice floats effortless atop a wave of sound built by the band, like it does on this somewhat stereotypical garage rocker "Be My Caveman". A recently posted track on their myspace page, "Bad Reputation" is methodically blistering in its attack, and shows the band continuing in the same, wonderful, vein. -Source
As development and natural progress the return of The Booby Traps is made with "Makin' It With The...", record of more distinct musical pieces, both in quality as the volume of labeled "60's thing", because the "pop" embraces the "fuzz" with a authentic sonorous consistency, if the first record had left me deemed, now I envy what I listen, the journey begins with authentic sounds of this band in "Make It" and "Stop!", but it is in "Searchin", that the progress are noted, with hotter vocalizations and harmonized rhythms of guitars, that are back in "Long Way To Go" and "L.A. Kinda Day", in "Bad Reaction" and "Going Nowhere" the rhythms of “fuzz” are prominent, and are these variations that make "Makin' It With The..." a solid record, and a consistent example of "garage-rock´n´roll" highly recommended. -Source
Das zweite Album des 2 Girls/3 Boys-Fünfers aus Sydney sieht von den Fotos bis zum Artwork aus, als stammten sie aus den Sechzigern - wie der „Pagoden"-Mercedes SL auf dem Cover. Sollte der im Besitz eines Bandmitglieds sein, bin ich neidisch - sehr neidisch! Ähnlich authentisch auch die Musik, die ich anlässlich des Debüts im weiten Feld zwischen Holly Golightly einerseits und den MUFFS andererseits verortete.
Das ist aber nur die eine Möglichkeit der Beschreibung, denn Vorbilder sind logischerweise die Originale aus den Sixties, denen die BOOBY TRAPS aber nicht so historisierend nacheifern wie manch andere in ihrem Metier.
Egal, das ist eine akademische Diskussion, was zählt, ist der Spaß, und der kommt hier nicht zu kurz, denn Fuzzgitarren, Maraca-Gerassel, auch mal eine Orgel ergeben eine vielfältige Mischung aus Pop, Soul und Northwest-Garagerock - nicht weit entfernt von dem, was die Damen und Herren mit ihren früheren Bands wie den THURSTON HOWLERS, HONEYHUNTERS oder HAZLEWOODS spielten. Joachim Hiller
The Booby Traps - Makin' It With The Booby Traps (Off The Hip 2008) FLAC 320
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