The Demon’s Claws “Little Satan’s Pet Pig” 2007. In the Red Records. Lo-fi garage rock via Montreal. Little Satan’s Pet Pig is The Demon’s Claws second album and it’s a raucous hot mess, in a good way. Echoey vocals like they’re sung through a tin can, sprinklings of psychobilly and good ol’ time country swing with a bit of harmonica here and there (“1000 Rounds,” and “That Old Outlaw” as the titles might imply), some really roughed-up Stones styled rhythm and blues (“Gun to My Head”), but mostly irreverent garage punk, that manic energy likely pushed forward with the band hiring Jay Reatard to master the record. I prefer those wild numbers that really put the punk into the 60′s garage sound like “Shadow of a Castle,” the title track “Satan’s Little Pet Pig,”“Unemployment,” and “Cecile Lemay” which throws in a taste of that 60′s psych-garage organ sound to add to the insanity. The track “Hunting on the 49″ is really great – it reminds me of “Fed From Her Hand,” on their 2010 LP The Defrosting Of which I believe was the first song I heard by them. That track prompted me to buy that record – the song is a little like Nirvana’s cover of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” – simple and folksy with super-dark, creepy vibe.