Seattle Subsonic

An Unnatural Helping of Cracked Love and Other Drugs

April 27th, 2010

We’ve talked quite a bit about rock-steady veteran drummer Dean Whitmore’s rotating posse of punk Unnatural Helpers this year. There was that chill-lookin’, bright blastin’ 7″ that Hardly Art released at the end of March. There was that ri-DONK-ulous Funhouse show with Thee Oh Sees at the end of February that I geeked hard about. Hey, I was drunk, whaddayou want from me? (Seriously, that show was ridonkulous.) Kevin has previewed, I dunno, like 27 of their shows. So, it shouldn’t surprise you then that we’re talking about the band again. Actually, I really can’t say whether you should be surprised or not since I have absolutely no idea of people’s cognizance around here. Anyway, it’s release Tuesday! And Cracked Love and Other Drugs is finally available for all you punk rockers to purchase with your punk rockin’ monies!

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The album is 15 tracks and just under 26 minutes, so those of you with attention spans shorter than a ladybug’s ankle sock won’t have to dig in too deep to reap the record’s rewards. Personally, I think the band owes a lot to the rough-and-tumble shit-kickin’ gallop of the Stooges and other similarly hard-hitting garage rockers, but there’s a shout-y swagger and party-dude nonchalance to the Helpers that sets them apart. Hardly Art has a couple of mp3′s for download that I linked below. And, if you’re so inclined, they’ve got the whole thing streaming over at myspace. Go nuts.

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“Girl in the Window”
“Sunshine / Pretty Girls”

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Easy Street in-store goes down at 7pm TONIGHT in Queen Anne. Record release show is Friday May 7 at Neumos with Butts, Spurm, and TacocaT. More on the inimitable Butts here.