The Booby Traps - Be My Caveman (9 Tr. CD-Single, Off The Hip 2007)

 

The Booby Traps are influenced by the raw fuzz sounds of garage bands from the 60's & melodies & arrangments from the girl groups of the same era. Also throw in a bit of grit & swagger from all the great R'n'B artists from the 50's/60's. The Booby Traps are united in their passion for all things primitive and swingin! The Booby Traps have had the pleasure of sharing the stage with The Hoodoo Gurus, The Stems, The Johnnys, The Detroit Cobras, The Persian Rugs, 5,6,7,8's, Intercontinental Playboys, Dolly Rocker Movement, The Groovie Ghoulies....and many more. 

The release of their CD "Be My Caveman" saw the Booby Traps fan base explode! A second pressing was rapidly produced after selling out their original 500 copies within a few months! The 4-track studio recording, with 5 live bonus tracks, encapsulated their raw, garage punk rock sound, a mere entrée to what was yet to come! 

Their full-length album has just been released in 2006. 13 new recordings, keeping true to their 60's punk roots and having switched up a gear, thrown out the manual and burnt up the track to produce a main course of fuzz-laden dance-floor stompers. Punters need not order dessert. 

 

Since The Booby Traps started in 2003 the reviews of their shows have always been favourable, highlighting the unique sounds that they have showcased to the Sydney public. Here are a few excerpts from some of these reviews Sneering Shangri-las inspired girl-group, meets the fuzz monsters from the garage. Primevil & raw, with a lead singer thats equal parts Gerry Roslie (of Sonics fame) & wild cat hillbilly. Go see 'em, they're great to watch. You'll dance & shake, youll be revived.                            The Booby Traps would have to be the hardest working garage band currently playing the Sydney circuit. They're great at what they do and that whole accelerator-down, chicks-with-flick knives feel that their music has, is pretty special. A Booby Traps show is always an enjoyable one. Plenty of sixties garage comin at you. Screaming, nasty vocals, warm fuzzy guitar that takes me to a time when Boss Hoss and Skinny Minny let the good times roll. Sweet melodies and drumbeats that come from the heart of all things garage. The Booby Traps were rockin and rollin and the only thing the crowd were left with were extremely sore feet. Mod escapees from a Russ Meyer flick!   -Source

 

The Booby Traps - Be My Caveman (9 Tr. CD-Single, Off The Hip 2007)  FLAC    320

 

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The Booby Traps - Makin' It With The Booby Traps (Off The Hip 2008)

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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