Mystery Girls
Something In The Water

Five white guys playing fabulous rhythm'n'blues. You've heard the story before, and it tells of the insolent scruffiness of the great rockers. Like the early Rolling Stones. That is, Mick Jagger on a Honda 350 acid green, seventy-eight miles per hour, and in his eyes the stupid and dissolute look of someone who's thinking he might have preferred a Harley Davidson. I was saying, the Mystery Girls are young, or worse, they're exactly my age and that fact annoys me quite a bit. Because with their second shot, they create this "Something In The Water" with the legendary In The Red Records (a label for which you should have a separate shelf at home!), abandoning women, studies, and engines, and start touring the world spreading the eternal word. The music of the stone age. Rock.

Sure, they will never be capricious exiles. They will never get lost in France among luxurious villas, magnificent models, and drugs of every type, but following in their grandparents' footsteps, they will know how to play good rock'n'roll. Drunk and bastard just right. This album is a jewel, and right from the furious attack of "Autumn Turns To Fall" (what kind of stupid refrain is this?! I love it, damn it! I hate you!) you already know that for a month you won't take it off the turntable. Tons of sneaky handclapping, sloppy and bluesy wah-wah guitars, and harmonica licks that make your jeans tighten. The wonderful simplicity of these new "idiot savants" and their dripping lascivious moods. They would make anyone dance and have fun. Because they mix in an incredibly original way Chuck Berry (how can you not mention him everywhere, all the time? Father! Forgive them! They don't know what they're doing!) Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker with the New York Dolls and the Oblivians - and if you don't know these two bands, just leave it, click on another review or go back to playing the playstation.

Well, what else to say? Should I "describe" these 13 little songs to you? Naaaa... I'd take all the fun away from you. You do it. Try it and see. "Something In The Water" is an album that gives you an incredible joy for living. It makes you want to immediately go out into the street and pick up beautiful girls, dance in underwear, drink Martini, wear that '60s tie that with the new shirt and velvet jacket looks divine, meet up with friends and cause a ruckus, smash the entire equipment of the rehearsal room (all at the same time!). And let the rest go screw itself...