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Album Review

Detroit Cobras Tied & True
Rough Trade

Article written by Paul M
Apr 8, 2007.

It may have taken the Cobras three years to deliver their fifth album but at last they’ve returned with another bagful of borrowed rock n roll. In the time they’ve been away garage has of course largely lost favour with the musical trend hoppers so it’ll be interesting to see how much coverage this collection receives. Fashionable or not however, it’s maintained the tip top standard of previous efforts.

The amazing husky rasp of Rachel Nagy’s vocals remains the asset that makes the band stand head and shoulders above any other covers outfit. While sure this may be music from the 60s she ensures it’s not the sickly candy coated girl pop world of the Pipettes but rather raw ballsy blues delivered by a woman who prefers sporting tattoos to polka dots. Sounding as if she smokes eighty unfiltered high tar fags a day while swigging whiskey from the bottle she adds a dirty raunchiness to all material they cover. Even pleasantly twee numbers like Only To Other People can take on an extremely sleazy air with her treatment but the Cobras’ bread and butter are heavily greased up soul riffs accompanied by pounding percussion. And there are plenty of ‘em. Tenderising is something you do to a steak by pummelling it and it feels like that’s precisely what the Cobras do to a love song. Smacking it hard, cos love hurts, right? Oh yes! And with this meaty set of punch drunk tunes it feels like you’ve gone thirteen rounds with a brutal bunch of scrappers. Knockout!

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