Devils Teeth “Suki Yaki Hot!”
Devils Teeth “Suki Yaki Hot!” 2018. Triple Eye Industries. We saw Devils Teeth, one of our favorite current Milwaukee bands, play an outdoor show just blocks from our house last night at Chill on the Hill and they played several songs from their debut album, Suki Yaki Hot! Garage punk with plenty of psycho-surf and spaghetti western influences, Devils Teeth put on a show! Dressed almost entirely in matching white outfits (except lead singer/guitarist “Captain” Jon Canine, who sported a floral Hawaiian shirt), they tore up the stage. I’m guessing their white pants have a decent amount of stretch as the saxophone player demonstrated some seriously yoga-like moves.
Suki Yaki Hot! is blistering and super-high energy, whipped up with a fuzzed-out surfy frenzy. My top tracks are the punk’d up opener “Diamond Rio,” the dirty garage punk “Dirty Tricks,” the psycho-surf’d “Party Shark Shake,” the slow menace of the Link Wray-ish “Understanding the Hands of a Killer” and another crazed surf track “Sakuraba.”
Daily (maybe) pulls from the vault: 33-1/3, 45, 78, old, older, classic, new, good, bad. Subjective. Autobiographical. Occasionally putting a record up for sale.