ROUND-UP: SLEAZE
By Sleazegrinder
The Boatsmen: a facemelting masterclass.
The Boatsmen
Versus The Boatsmen
SPAGHETTY TOWN
First of all, besides the name and a captain’s hat here and there, Swedish action-rock sensations The Boatsmen don’t really mention boats at all on this, their fourth full-length album. So don’t expect some kinda Running Wild pirate-metal sea shanty bullshit. Do expect to get pulverised with some holy fuckin’ rock’n’roll, though. Like a punk rock Rolling Stones, The Boatsmen stagger, drunk but confident, through slinky, pie-eyed Saturday-night fight anthems like Clap Canon, the fist-fighting SavedByRock, high-flying WhenI’mDrunk, and the relentless Turbonegro-esque headbanger BlameItOnMe. All of it is played fast and furious with little regard for public safety, most of the tracks clocking in at two minutes or less. VersusTheBoatsmenis not the work of pikers or part-time landlubbers, this is hard-core rock’n’roll made by and for hard-core rock’n’rollers. And it’s essentially a masterclass on how to melt faces.