The debut of Paul Vickers (of Dawn and The Replicants fame) with Edinburgh hillbilly noisemakers The Leg was surely one of the live highlights of 2007 within Aberdeen, as much for their sounds as the fact that a drunken Vickers, after revealing himself under 3 masks, staggered like a friendlier Mark E Smith telling stories of Houdini and reading poetry while The Leg, wearing straw hats and socks over their heads played banjo and cello through a distortion pedal with a drummer dressed as a panda.
And now this genius pairing has been put together on record. As you can imagine it doesn’t sound anything ordinary. ‘The Car Horns of Rio’ begins with some chants and before turning into a very psychedelic pop melody until it suddenly transforms into riff-heavy driving rock like Captain Beefheart fronting Black Sabbath.
On the flip-side, ‘Chime Chime Cherry’ is perhaps the strangest sounding ho-down you’ll hear. If this is anything to go by, the album – due early next year – will be amazing.
