Album & EP Reviews

Loose Sutures – Sado Sex for Dummies

Loose Sutures – Sado Sex for Dummies
Electric Valley Records
Release date: 26/05/2023
Running time: 36:00
Review by: Alun Jones
9/10

Now here’s a great album to play next time the vicar pops round for a cup of tea.  Invite him in, sit him down; offer a nice cuppa, custard cream perched tenderly on the side of the saucer, engage in some small talk about replacing the glass windows in the vestry. “What’s this delightful music?” the padre is sure to enquire.  “Why, it’s the new album by Loose Sutures,” you reply helpfully, “it’s called “Sado Sex for Dummies””. 

Of course, you’ll then be able to tell your friendly priest that Loose Sutures are a band from Sardinia, Italy – and that this is their third album. They’re a threesome, (oo-er), consisting of Antonio Pilo (guitars/vocals), Marcello Meridda (bass/percussion) and Marco Angius (drums/vocals). And what pleasant, well mannered young men they must be.

Their music is a divinely fuzzy, scuzzy stoner rock with an intoxicating slather of punk attitude. You can both bop along enthusiastically together in your armchairs to the rolling, out of control ‘Highway Shooter’, or bounce about gleefully to ‘Sadism and Gallows’. The fun continues with the sleazy punkorama of ‘White Line’, while ‘Kinky Katy’ (featuring Alain Johannes) and ‘He’s My Friend’ (featuring Nick Oliveri) offer cheap thrills and menacing rock, in that order.

If you, or your fellow upstanding members of society are fans of Kyuss, the first QOTSA album, fuzzy Mudhoney or maybe even a little Electric Wizard distorted doom, you’re sure to love this. Loose Sutures have recorded an album of wholesome, frolicking rock’n’roll that’s drenched in filth. Invite the neighbours round to sample it with coffee and a slice of Victoria sponge.  Maybe leave the gimp suit locked in the under stairs cupboard for now, though.   

TRACKLISTING: 
01. Highway Shooter
02. Another Hell
03. Sadism and Gallows
04. White Line
05. Kinky Katy (feat. Alain Johannes)
06. He’s My Friend (feat. Nick Oliveri)
07. Cowbell From Hell
08. Black Star Flashing

LINE-UP:
Antonio Pilo – Guitars/Vocals
Marcello Meridda – Bass/Percussions
Marco Angius – Drums/Vocals

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