Single Of The Week
Alongside compatriots Sons And Daughters, Sluts Of Trust and Serial P.O.P., this new outfit like to mix and match musical styles. Their debut single pits garage punk and popabilly against more obscure leftfield influences, but it all makes sense thanks to an energetic drive and a fine, if somewhat skewed, pop sensibility.
Timeout - 8th December, 2004
Glasgow's Sam Smith directs this swarthy and engagingly knockabout Voidoids/Damned hybrid. His Addicts have also turned their hand to 'The Clapping Song', ripping the novelty stuffing out of it and replacing it with surf-tastic skiffle cum Ramonse-y rama-lama. Hey! Ho! Let's go!"
NME - 11th December 2004
Since Franz Ferdinand made it socially acceptable for young Glaswegian males to wander down Sauchiehall Street wearing more slap than Atomic Kitten at their tangerine peak, gender experimentation has been all the rage in Scotland. Glaswegian five-piece Mother And The Addicts look effeminate enough to be victimised by neo-Nazi nightclub bouncers, and that's one reason to love them. The fact that their debut single is the irresistible sound of the New York Dolls wrestling with The Rutles on a derailed subway train is another.