Gnome – I Like It EP

I feel like its been a little while since a true garage EP has hit the page here. The grit has gripped the amps now and again but it’s been a touch since the sneer and strum of a true garage ripper has rifled through the RSTB speakers. Now, to get it out of the way, Gnome sounds undeniably like The Kinks and quite a bit beholden to the years when The Animals didn’t have to waste font space tossing Eric Burdon’s name out front. It’s a raw, ragged, and savaged EP that plays garage like it was fresh and new, and that’s exactly what makes it great. I Like It comes on like Gnome was just electrified by the possibilities of the guitar, in thrall to the yelp of an amplifier’s pain.

The songs tumble out of the speakers with a tempo timed to push blood through the veins at top speed. I’m not normally going to stump as an apologist for the golden years of rock n’ roll, but there’s always been something about the effect that rippled through the world when Dave Davies damaged a speaker and singed a generation of synapses. There’s something just as fun about an Aussie kid barely out of high school slipping the guitar on and strangling it with the same fervor of Davies. Call it pastiche, but it’s hard not to love every second of this one.

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