Chrome Cranks “Chrome Cranks” 1994. PCP Entertainment (Matador Records distribution). Noisy punk blues featuring former Jon Spencer collaborator Jerry Teel (Honeymoon Killers). Current(ish) and frequent(ish) Spencer collaborator Bob Bert (Pussy Galore, Jon Spencer & the Hitmakers, plus Sonic Youth) joined a year after Chrome Cranks release, in 1995 (the first gig of an earlier iteration of Chrome Cranks was as an opener for Pussy Galore.) There’s a good, brief bio of the band here (though hard to read) that lists the history and chronology of the band and its members. The s/t album was Chrome Cranks first full-length; it’s loud and lo-fi, rattly and rocking and, though formed in metropolis Cincinnati in ’88 and stationed in uber-urban NYC during the 90’s, it’s also infused with country blues strumming, some whooping and hollering (see “Driving Bad“) giving it a psychobilly bent – the spooky “Eight-Track Mind” would feel at home on a Cramps album. My top picks are the garagey opener “Dark Room,” the raucous punk’d out “Drag House,” the Hendrix-ish “Doll in a Dress,” plus the ass-shakers “Stuck in a Cave,” “Lo-End Buzz” and the vinyl-only closer “Party’s Over.”