New York City’s Wilful Boys are old-school from the start, as mainman and singer Steven Fisher isn’t out front of the band, prancing and preening. The man is behind the drumkit, his heavy-as-a-sack-of-bricks pounding driving these relentless songs forward with a bruising, methodical force.

Their debut 7″ release kicks off with the mid-tempo assault and beer-guzzling chunks of riff of Anybody There? On the reverse is Flat Out, a down-and-out lament that follows the song’s descending riff into a well of hopelessness.

Like all the best rock n’ roll, this is music for drinking away your life’s worries.

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