Dirtbombs
We Have You Surrounded

Personal, passionate, rough, heavy, captivating, and wonderfully dirty as always. After a 5-year absence from our ears, the sound of the great Mark Collins from Detroit returns with his Dirtbombs, with their fourth album for In The Red.

Originally intended to be a 5-track EP, this release exploded into a fantastic full-length album. "We Have You Surrounded" brings back the dirty bombs in grand style, with a couple of covers ("Sherlock Holmes" by Sparks and "Fire In The Western World" by Dean Moon) and 10 other new tracks where their garage rock tinged with punk, pop, r'n'b, and a healthy pounding tribalism wraps around Collins's deep voice and seems to emerge directly from behind the unfathomable depth of his black glasses.

A huge delight for the ears, and an outstanding song written for them (or for Bauhaus? Who knows!) no less than by Alan Moore: listen to "Leopard Man At C&A" at full volume and let the primitive drumming shake you, surrounding you with no escape to take you straight to the end of the world ("We Have You Surrounded", "La Fin Du Mond"): woa! Few are the calm interludes ("Indivisible") and even the oddities are well tolerated ("Race To The Bottom").

For me, they are geniuses.