Bruised and Satisfied.
The Defectors pull rigor mortified riffs and horror hooks from outta the darkest depths of Satan’s belly in order to shake up your listening space and trash your hi-fi. Bruised and Satisfied is the 4th The Defectors album and their bitching brew of slamming Farfisa drenched graveyard garage punk never sounded meaner… or better for that matter.
It’s been exactly three years since The Defectors released their former album “Turn Me On!â€. Besides playing shows in France, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany, the band has toured North America twice and South America once and done festivals like SXSW, NXNE and Popkomm. A revised version of “Turn Me On!†including three new songs was released on No Fun Records in The US. The album was also released in Russia in August 2006.
Bruised and Satisfied is recorded in The Defectors’ own studio Cairo Hi-Fi in their hometown Aarhus. In the fall of 2006 the renowned Danish producer Carsten Heller set up his special microphones and recorded what became a very different rock album. Bruised and Satisfied sounds wonderfully fuzzy, loud and trashy and at the same time the sound is HUGE and detailed.
Bruised and Satisfied is split into two parts. Side A is the horror part as only The Defectors can perform it. Six tales from beyond, taking place in an universe populated by dancing ghouls, creepy crawls and bloodsucking freaks resurrected from the dead. Side B is pure fuzzy garage punk played with nerve wrecking intensity. Of course, this works best on the main format vinyl. On CD the parts are linked by little interludes so these listeners will get the picture… after all.
Excellent music for driving by the way… all the way… baby… UGH!
