During their tenure as New York's kings of garage sleaze, the Chrome Cranks were nothing if not prolific. Oily Cranks compiles 30 minutes of raw demo tracks from the band's early days of gestating in Ohio before their move to the big city. Considering that some of the source material for this disc was of dubious audio quality to begin with -- lo-fi being the Chrome Cranks' deliberate, methodically plotted signature sound -- the quality varies wildly. That proves both good and bad. It is what...   [ read more ]

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The Chrome Cranks were hardly the best or most original exponents of the raunchy punk blues hybrid that began to make the rounds in the early '90s (an assessment frontman Peter Aaron cops to in his liner notes to this set), but their commitment to sleaze and aural damage was second to none, and the rattling bellow of their horny but nihilistic roar has been collected in exhaustive form on this collection. Diabolical Boogie: Singles, Demos & Rarities presents 33 slabs of impure noise from the {$...   [ read more ]

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