CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE - 101 Damnations

LP / CD Big Cat UK Records 1990



"Carter the Unstoppable Smartalecks is more like it. Two of the brightest bulbs ever to hook themselves to a drum machine and let rip, South London's Fruitbat (Leslie Carter, guitar) and Jim Bob (Morrison, vocals) - veterans of a dozen years together in various obscure bands - seem like the kind of overstimulated chums who would have given teachers fits in school. Their energetic albums employ the clattering drive and sampling inserts of industrial music, the verbosity of rap, the bratty topical posturing of punk's intellectual wing and the melodies of chart pop. Packed to the gills with product and people names, inverted puns, non-didactic political outrage and persistent rock gripping in its breathless enthusiasm, the runaway sequencer-driven doses of scattershot literate whimsy (shades of Dylan on acid) can be far too chaotic and complicated. But for those raised on Mad magazine and methedrine, Carter is a dream come true, a contact high of instant culture overload. If only the ultra-British records came with footnotes".
(Ira Robbins, Trouser Press)

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