The Mainliners = The Greenhornes + The Go + The Hives + The Sights + The Mooney Suzuki.
These guys are an excellent garage rock band that has some amazing hip-shaking hooks and beats. Backed with an excellent rhythm section, the lead singer takes center stage with an R&B vocal style that is solid with its James Brown- style screams and Jim Morrison baritone. Think of The Who and The Kingsmen playing today in their teens, still writing solid tracks that are both danceable and snotty. Although garage is a term that is being loosely thrown around these days, The Mainliners are the real deal. They know that garage is about an explosive energy that is both simple but not formulistic—an attacking rock'n'roll record that will carve them a niche beside some of the greatest and wildest of today's rock movements. This one is a winner that keeps on hitting.
Slug Mag - May 05

Despite their own claim that they “aren’t concerned with the image or having the proper haircut”, The Mainliners DO have the looks, and even a bit too much of a gloss’n’floss on the album artwork, which almost suggests just another bunch of contemporary garage wanna-bees, missing the actual point. But, after digging a bit deeper into the content, you realise that they happen to be a more than satisfactory continuation of the Swedish garage-beat revival, started way back in the eighties by the likes of The Stomachmouths, The Crimson Shadows and followed by The Strollers and The Maharajas these days. Actually, the thing about The Mainliners is that they manage to give the obvious mid-sixties influences a moderndaze feel, sounding kinda like The Hives, had they been able to deliver what’s called an “all killer no filler” album, with their growling frontman Robert Billing, giving a run for the money to anyone .. you name ‘em!

Even with the slower tunes, they deliver the goods all right, adding a bit of Animalisms in the opening title tune and “Dead man’s hall”, or the early punk aesthetics of the young Van Morrison in “Loosin’ my mind”. As from the second tune “Sinkin’ feeling”, things start to cook with the Kinky riffin’, powered up with some Motorcity engines, and it continues with what you could call a commercial garage sound patented by The ‘Watchband, The Standells or The Remains, as heard in “She’s an overdose”, or later in “The lonely one” and “Try to bring us down”, while “Daughter of dimes” might be the best the glammy bubblegum ever gets. “Robber of your soul” along with “Crocodile roll” delivers some nervous freakbeat-ish frenzy, and it’s also worth mentioning that “Ordinary night” could been the sound of the ‘Stones these days, if they were still having fun. So, don’t let the shiny cover mislead you, this is mid’60s beat reminiscing at it’s best!
Gora Obradovic - Popism! - May 05

Nouveau 7" sur Human Bretzel records
Cat. ref # HBZ 002
Garage-Rock originaire de Stockholm, Suède. 2 titres inédits enregistrés en 2006.
Seulement sur 7" !
Tirage limité à 630ex, pochette argent.
Date de sortie: Juillet 2006
Précédents disques: album LP sur Get Hip records (USA), 2005
7" single sur Crusher records, 2004

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