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01. Hot Lunch - Handy Denny
02. Hot Lunch - Killer Smile
03. Hot Lunch - Ripped At The Seam
04. Hot Lunch - Knife Edge
05. Hot Lunch - Lady Of The Lake
06. Hot Lunch - She Wants More
07. Hot Lunch - Tragedy Prevention
08. Hot Lunch - Gold Lyre
09. Hot Lunch - Monks On The Moon
ARTIST
TITLE
Hot Lunch
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
HPS 193CD HPS 193CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/25/2022

Heavy Psych Sounds give new life to the Hot Lunch self-titled debut masterpiece, originally released in 2013. Kicking off in prime, amped up MC5 style with "Handy Denny" it's clear that Hot Lunch are out to grab you by the nuts like a pit bull and keep squeezing until this album has wrung you dry. Within the first two songs the band have ripped their way through more riffs that the first two Black Sabbath albums put together and there is no let up from here on in. "Ripped At The Seams" opts for a tight but loose Blue Cheer style grind with Eric Shea's manic vocal delivery evoking John Garner at his most deranged in the early days of Sir Lord Baltimore. Other bands that Hot Lunch tip their hats to through the course of these nine tracks, to varying degrees include the spastic blues of The Groundhogs, the theatrical intensity of The Alice Cooper Band, the raw, soulful blast of Grand Funk Railroad, the explosive crunch of The Who through to the trippy psychedelia of The Doors -- albeit without an incoherent drunken pub singer fronting them. It isn't all noise though. The epically lengthy "Lady Of The Lake" displays a level of tenderness with a lightly folky vibe, not too dissimilar to Sir Lord Baltimore's "Lake Isle Of Innisfree". The brief "She Wants More" blasts in a fog of boogie that makes Foghat look like Barry Manilow, Shea barely maintaining his breath and composure as he rages through the lyrics. "Tragedy Prevention", like many of its predecessors pitches from riff to riff with wild abandon and even features what sounds like a Vox Organ to paint extra sonic textures.