In travelling across genres, I forget where my love of discovering bands and true musical discovery. I had been buying albums from the age of 11 and of course, I was most influenced by what I heard on Radio and TV, so these were largely well produced, a place for everything albums.
My real interest was peaked when I got out to the gigs and discovered bands that you didn't hear on the Radio. You turned up regularly at clubs to be surprised, see bands you had never seen and this is what Foxy gloriously remind me of.
This was in the period after Punk, around the time of New Wave in the UK. Rumbar Records have a happy knack of taking me back to this time. Sweaty bars, mayhem in the audience as you wore yourself out moving and shaking to music that just gripped you with its energy, big choruses and riffs.
Moxy are a quartet who take me back to 1979 and all its glory. They certainly have a great front person in Lisa Parker and a sound built on a fine rhythm section with driving Basslines and in Greg Antista, they have a Guitarists who knows a riff when he hears one.
Tonight Tonight is wall to wall energy. Sub 3 minute songs that launch into massive choruses and killer solos. Incredibly melodic and particularly gripping, all attitude. The band cross through genres with a down and dirty smile. From Punk to Indie Rock via New Wave and sussed out Streetwise know how.
This may be Retro, but it is so engaging. Indeed, there is a lot in common with the current noisier breed of Power Pop and at times the album reminds me of Andrew WK's debut album, heads down and prepare to be swallowed up. What a wonderful listen.
You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on CD and as a download.
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