Routes, The / In This Perfect Hell
Album: In This Perfect Hell   Collection:General
Artist:Routes, The   Added:Jul 2017
Label:Dirty Water Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2017-07-20 Pull Date: 2017-09-21
Week Ending: Sep 24 Sep 17 Sep 3 Aug 27 Aug 20 Aug 13 Aug 6 Jul 30
Airplays: 1 1 4 2 2 2 3 2

Recent Airplay
1. Sep 20, 2017: Brownian Motion
Something Slipped Through My Win
4. Aug 31, 2017: Totally A
Peeling Face
2. Sep 14, 2017: Totally A
Peeling Face
5. Aug 30, 2017: Brownian Motion
Thousand Forgotten Dreams
3. Aug 31, 2017: moodswings
Housework In My Head
6. Aug 30, 2017: The Library
Oblivious

Album Review
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Reviewed 2017-07-19
Dirty Water Records goodness – Japanese fuzz garage revival. What you’d expect from this label: bad ass sneering fuzzed out garage. Remember: Guitar Wolf came from that island that we poisoned with nuclear bombs. Godzilla may have been fictional but searing Japanese psyche garage is definitely not. Jesus and Mary Chain come to mind sometimes but mostly The Mummies, Mono Men, all things Estrus Records. All songs catchy and fun. Play with all the other excellent garage hitting the afile right now.

1)* (4:21) slow evil surf hip grinder 2)* (3:57) tad more upbeat, cool beats, the JAMC tone comes through on this 3) (3:04) upbeat pop for sure, almost a brass tone to the addition of keyboards, like a 60’s TV theme song 4)* (3:19) upbeat, surfy 5) (2:58) shoo bop slow surf grind, kinda dark spooky feel with the fuzz, “its worry!” 6) (2:58) a bigger head nod beat, with tambourine, more swingy 7) (2:59) surfy cha cha cha 8)* (3:27) super cool vibrato and sexy drums, mid paced 9) (3:41) slower poppy, 12 string Rickenbacker guitar feel, cute background vocals, 60’s pop 10)* (3:19) title track: slower head swaying bass led, super hip and cool

Track Listing
1. Thousand Forgotten Dreams   6. Make You Hate Me More
2. Something Slipped Through My Win   7. Housework In My Head
3. Peeling Face   8. Oblivious
4. No Permanence   9. In Years Gone By
5. Worry   10. Perfect Hell