No, not a dance version of Laughing Len, but a perfectly Noo Yawk cool guitar groove, featuring what sounds like the Debbie Harry Blues Explosion. A growling, dirty riff revs up behind a sultry spiel about "dead presidents" and "shooting up neon". I'll buy that for a dollar. But then the other two tracks are squelchy techno funk which sound like a different band. New technology baffles pissed old hack again, then.
JOHNNY CIGARETTES
The List
An Aussie croupier living in New York and signed to a Scottish Indie, Jackie 'Cha Cha' Cohen plays an unsurprisingly cosmopolitan brand of music. 'Freon Shortwave' is a two minute, stop-start, angular streak of cool New Wave meets Beck that Elastica would give their Wire songbook for, 'Street Soup' is a fantastically mean and moody, fucked up spy theme and 'Non-Sequitur' is a ferocious dance tune.