ENDLESS BOOGIE – FULL HOUSE HEAD

Endless Boogie are a name, a concept and a force of nature that will not bend to no man. Four albums in and the song remains the same, and the same, and yet again, the same. Students of Keith Richards, The Stooges and Rose Tattoo these boys have sat down, distilled what they like into its most base form, and then spent hour upon hour meditating upon the ‘Almighty Riff’. And once they are there, don’t expect them to give up in a hurry either, the shortest tune here is a tick under five minutes, the finale a live Stooge-fest over 22 minutes long that is as raw and visceral as it is low-fi. What seeps through the speakers is a sheer determination, a bloody-minded resolve to play each note with maximum intensity until the listener just ‘gets it’. Sure, some won’t, in fact most won’t, but those that do will join the flocks with the zeal of a bornagain, and you have to admire that.

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