Friday 18 May 2012

Record Review - The Toot Toot Toots

Published in the Sydney Morning Herald, June 15th 2012.



The Toot Toot Toots
OUTLAWS
Spooky Records

Billed as a “spaghetti western rock opera”, Melbourne alt.country/rock quintet The Toot Toot Toots’ debut record is, as is evident after only a cursory listen, in a league of its own.  The whiskey-soaked vocals of Giuliano Ferla are so grotesque, you can’t help but acutely feel the pain, the glory, the bloodshed and vengeance of central character Eli Rayne as the record chronicles his (mis)adventures in the fictitious gold rush township of Gomorrah Fields.

Behind Ferla a thundering beat reigns supreme, mariachi horns and barbed-wire guitars run amok, it’s a veritable rumble of a record.  The fact the band have attempted something so adventurous as a concept record to release first up shows they’re not ones to sit idly by, preferring instead to produce some of the best doom country you’ll hear all year.

Samuel J. Fell

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