Having recently celebrated their 10th anniversary as a band and being able to look back on two Peel sessions, four albums and about eight singles, Newcastle outfit Spraydog “stumbled and bumbled their way out of the Newcastle Riot Girl / Indie scene at a time when it all seemed like witchcraft”(who would want to change this to-the point wording, taken from the band’s myspace), went unnoticed by the masses but are now coming up with what already is their fifth album. Released on the band’s own label, Ferric Mordant Records, Karate Summer Camp in no way alters the Spraydog tradition (a legitimate term after 10 years!) of fuzzy, edgy, lo-fi, neo-punk instrumentation, where guitar and bass work together to create a strange, twisted dynamic, just as the boy/girl vocals do. The album clearly has a few weaker songs, but still is a convincing proof of the band not running out of ideas.
