Stinky Munchkins new 7" - 'Release The Lions' out Aug 6th on Art/Goes/Pop
puregroove.co.uk"
Available from -
JUMBO LEEDS / PICCADILLY MANCHESTER / PHONICA LONDON
ROUGH TRADE LONDON / PURE GROOVE LONDON / SISTER RAY LONDON /BUGBEAR DISCS CAMDEN
ACTION RECORDS PRESTON / BANQUET KINGSTON SURREY
RPM NEWCASTLE / REFLEX NEWCASTLE / AVALANCHE EDINBURGH
AVALANCHE GLASGOW / MONO GLASGOW
MAILORDER: NORMAN / AMULET / ON THE FRINGE / THEE SPC
JAPAN: FILE-UNDER / ESCALATOR / VINYL JUNKIE / QUINCE
IRELAND: ROAD RECORDS DUBLIN
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link to StInkY MuNcHKinS on Xfm!
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Dino and Daryl started making music together a little while ago - nobody can quite remember when... They were both involved in separate musical projects with other people that were making them cantankerous and misanthropic, so they decided to experiment with making themselves happy...They initially amused themselves by buying rubbish records from charity shops and challenging each other to turn them into something good using only their samplers and the sounds contained within the grooves.Chas n Dave/Tottenham Hotspur 7"s metamorphosed into pulsating punk house epics, David Cassidy flexi discs were deconstructed and 1950s easy listening British folk songs were tortured into otherworldly oompah funk.At some point they realised that this didnt afford them enough chances to show off and decided that they had to form a proper band. Thus the Munchkins were born.The scavenger instincts and lack of respect for stylistic boundaries remain from the early charity shop record days, but now this is combined with experiments in make-up and the dressing up box, paper mache carnival heads and enforced audience participation.Dino and Daryl have been joined by Matt Gallus on bass and Charlie Hong Deen on guitar. After using and abusing more drummers than they care to remember they finally hooked up with Bix Cosmo and the team is now ready...
REVIEWS for 'Release the Lions':
"'Release the lions' / 'bad timing' is the long overdue debut release from the frankly untouchable Stinky Munchkins. No doubt ridiculously limited in number this horny thing positively pisses sleazy cocksure street cool from its opening grooves and never looks likes relenting until the blighters stopped
dead in its tracks. Sassily fried and desirably skewiff 'Release the
lions' will give your erogenous zones goosebumps - guaranteed, think
Animal Collective setting their rewiring sights on token stinky munchkin Prince and succulently threading into the set a host of wasted licks sourced from the early 70's with the inclusion of cameo roles from the 'glimmer twins' themselves supplying their sublimely trademark 'some girls' era smooze to the proceedings. Decadently indecent but such a randy and desirable thing to have reclining across your turntable." Losing Today Magazine
"throbbing, thoroughly funky, pretty darn filthy and reassuringly odd" Leeds Guide
"blingin'" The List
"Kraftwerk ditch the overalls and invest in some shell suits, throwing glitter around whilst doing sexy moves in front of a mirror whilst eating Peanut Butter out of the jar…" www.subba-cultcha.com
"Twin-headed funk / art-rock / electro mean-machine like a glorious raveup of 'Sandinista' period Clash, Jon Spencer, Franz Ferdinand and Sly & The Family Stone." Jumbo Records
"something new and quite unique" www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk
"Coming down the same art school route as the likes of Pulp and equipped with Klaxons-esque pointy writing on the CD sleeve, the curiously named Stinky Munchkins offer plenty of promise.Unsurprisingly, their sound is difficult to pinpoint, falling somewhere between uber-cool New Yorkers The Rapture and eccentric Aussies The Avalanches, but with noticeable influences from what the Glaswegians describe as ‘Misguided eighties electro experiments by otherwise reputable seventies rock stars.’ Both Release the Lions and B-side Bad Timing treat occasional glimpses of rock melody like a ‘where’s Wally’ within the crowded fairground of electronica and experimentation, resulting in an offering evocative of The Clash’s underappreciated denoument Cut The Crap. The distinctive quartet are definitely ones to watch." www.glasswerk.co.uk
"David Lynch pop for the masses." Manchestermusic.co.uk
" From a primitive impulse to transform any piece of musical oddity found during scavenge trips down to their local charity shop comes the richly blended sound of Stinky Munchkins’ double A-side single ‘Release the Lions’/ ‘Bad Timing’ – a poised barmy fusion of blues, funk and pop with the rough yet slick edges of electronica and punk and a finishing gloss of glam to exude über cool from your speakers. Too old to be classified as new ravers, The Stinky Munchkins belong to that group of peers, including LCD Soundsystem and The Rapture, that picked up from where the first rave movement left, acquired a few styles in between and never looked back." www.soundsxp.com
"a real stonking piece of heavy electro pop with lots of added prince like funk
thrown in, imagine animal collective playing electro pop with prince on
vocals, its like nothing you have ever heard before and will get inside your
brain and live there for days after listening" Road Records
OTHER reviews -
"think of the Stones 'Miss You', 'Emotional Rescue' and pretty much all of 'Some Girls' for that matter thrown into an amorphic blender with copious amounts of mind bending hallucinogens and strobe lights and a Class A infectious buzz that sounds like it's been bitten by a virulent strain of a originated in New York funky bug emerging out of the carnage dizzied and disorientated muttering in jive talking tongues while decked out in street cool threads and rich with an attitude that alone could start a fashion movement...Essential stuff." Losing Today Magazine
" 'Restart' jerks forward like a cold Ford Escort coughing on the first sparks from a set of jump leads. The lively peaks of bass and guitar jump up and down like a seismograph before scrawling a decent tune on the ceiling and walls. This is taken a stage further but locked down with a dancefloor p-funk beat and bass, on the fantastically head locking and thumping 'Starting A Fight In An Empty Room'. Pure Class." Manchestermusic.co.uk
"Sick squelchy synths begin Stinky Munchkins' 'Release the Lions' and pave the way for an amazing track that's right out there with its random noises and screechy vocals providing a refreshing change from the norm. A deceptive calm before the storm of the chorus which brings us a devilish 'Tonight, release the lions' as the lyrics set the band apart from the rest by issuing said instructions as a girl has just taken her clothes off and run down the street. Stinky Munchkins are no one trick pony though, as the delightful and swift change to stripped down synthesised vocals and a defiant 'But I know that I'll be leaving tonight' prove." leedsmusicscene.net
"... the incredible see-saw dancefloor of "Starting To Fight In An Empty Room" of the Stinky Munchkins, ribollente of bottoms and beats... turns out to you to opposite sides of the spectrography p-funk..."
indiepop.it
"...This band breathes street cred into a genre that’s in desperate need of some. If you want new music to get into and show off to your mates, this is definitely the band. Electro doesn’t come much cooler than Stinky Munchkins."http://www.theacrylictomtom.co.uk
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