Suricates – “Radio Radio Radio” album review
The late 70’s/early 80’s was that time when there was appearance of the bands which were marked “too gothic to be punk”. Suricates is the contrary of this term, they’re too punk to be goth, and the album “Radio Radio Radio” shows it in the best way it could. Though there exactly are some post-punk references (and the band has quite enough post punk fans), the foremost band’s musical relatives are “Ramones” and early “The Clash”. The combination of hoarse-ish male and contrasting to it female vocals, which perfectly supplement each other, also seems very successful for this band.
Generally, the album is kept with the great atmosphere of punk’77, but on elusive French manner with its national charm. But of course, a listener should expect some musical surprises, such as a “mad cheer” to “The Cramps” in the beginning of “Wake Up!” or the pure post-punk sound in some other moments and so on. It should be also mentioned that the finishing track of the album is the live cover of “Why Not?” of “Suricates” the most related and friendly band, which probably can be called “legendary” for French (post) punk scene, “Soup Toxic”. So, if you too punky to be enough “gothic” and you’re interested to have a look at fresh French viewpoint of punk’77, this release is exactly for you.
Pall ‘Nattsol’ Zarutskiy
‘Grave Jibes Fanzine’
