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Saving grace

CD/LP, TKO

Sixer gives us the perfect soundtrack to downing a few cans of beer on a late afternoon, sitting on a cornerstone with friends and hanging out that punkrocker-lifestyle. This spells 1977 all around, leatherjackets and combat-boots, working class-attitude or rather out-of-work-ing-class. But, the record has a lot of energy and drive and melodies, so it keeps you bopping your head along. And that is good.

“Saving grace” is nothing more and nothing less than a damn-good album of traditional, streetwise punkrock. Sometimes you don’t need more than 12 melody- and anger-packed tunes with a lot of punch, growled vocals and a guitar-solo here and there. Two or three absolute hit-songs but also no bad songs. Nothing new, nothing progressive, nothing out of the ordinary. This is my punkrock-album for this summer, but, hey remember, I am old.

Actually, I am so old, I still remember The Clash and the members of Sixer seem to be even a little older than me, so maybe they actually remember, when The Clash were still around (I remember that Levis-advertisement.) Maybe Sixer have a long history, various records out are able to tell interesting tales about the old times, but I don’t care. This record fills my appetite and I don’t need more. It is perfectly crafted punkrock, including the shouted vocals, the chugga-chuggad-intros, the short cliched fills and bridges, white vinyl even. There ain’t a lot you can say to that, but that it is damn good.

08/2001