Review by Adam Durbin
6.5/10

This new EP from the heavily Man's Ruin integrated band "The Euroboys," is a strange release for now. As it stands, the Euroboys have just released their album. "Long Days Flight" and now have seen fit to release this EP.

The album is good. I mean, I like it. The first track, "1999 Man" sounds like "The Low Desert Punk" on Brant Bjork's album, "Jalamanta," meaning that it is kind of slow, and plodding, but the song is really easy to like, and is infectious. However, unlike Bjork's offering, this song has a healthy dose of organ on it, which makes the whole song sound that much better, mostly for being different.

The song continues, and enters a strange little Fu Manchu bridge, with a wah-wah pedal being abused in such a way so as to create a hybrid mix of the earthlings? and Fu Manchu, right in the middle of the song.

The second track, "Ballad of Kirk and the Jerks," is called a Mancini-rip off, as in Henry Mancini. It is a slower song, with some heavy influences, not all from the big band leader. It rather seems that the band was listening to some Combustible Edison, but not enough to destroy their own sound and lean into the sleazy, lounge-underground. The song is even slower than the first, and plods along until its final chord. This song could be listened to at 5:30 am, after a long night of tabs and coke.

The third track, "Part Animal," gets back into what people expect from the Euroboys. It even kind of sounds like Beck at the start, with the strange guitars, synthesizers et al. It is really here that the album picks up, and the songs begin to last a little longer, going into 6 and 7 minute mode. This is another solid track, though, and the riff is almost punk in its speed. It falls a little short, though, for being slightly repetitive. The song keeps cracking, however. By cracking, it is meant that the song stops and continues on with the exact same riff, but played in a different way. I think by the end of this song, the drummer must be wishing he could just kill himself, because the drums are the only part of the song which really do not change.

The last track, "Witchbanger," begins slowly like the "Ballad of Kirk and the Jerks," but not in the same way entirely. This song begins a lot like the Natas without any fuzz at all. It has that apocalyptic sound, and then the drums come in, and destroy everything. From then on, it might as well be a Queens of the Stone Age track, released at about the same time as the QOTSA/Beaver split. Instead of Josh crooning along to the guitar track, though, instead it is a decent guitar riff, and the synthesizer that is omnipresent amongst this band.

(Although catchy at times, the release on the whole is not overly impressive. The first track is really the only one that jumps out at you, and the rest sort of wallow in themselves, and refuse to leave their self-dictated confines.)