FLASH
MAGAZINE ALBUM REVIEW (Italy, May 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away -
Ultimate Edition
(GMR Music Group)
[Read
in Italian] 75/100
FRENCH-METAL.COM
ALBUM REVIEW (France, May 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away -
Ultimate Edition
(GMR Music Group)
[Read
in French] 16.5/20
THEROCKPIT.NET ALBUM REVIEW
(Australia, April 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away -
Ultimate Edition
(GMR Music Group)
Imagine an alternate universe where Alice Cooper played Frank n Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show ? this is the world of Spit Like This, soon to be entering the studio with uber production guru Chris Tsangarides to record their second full length album.
Full of high camp, it?s witty, smutty, unapologetically in your face and full of originality. At it?s best singer Lord Zion is like a Heavy Metal inspirational speaker ? songs like ?Trust Your Instincts? encourage you to stand up for yourself, and foster self belief and individualism, (?You better not be telling me what I should do?) which are incredibly positive messages to disseminate to ?the kids?.
Opener ?Sex Drugs & Heavy Metal? (?is all I need?) perfectly illustrates the sense of humour and fun on offer, and serve as the ideal example of how the band use bassist Vikki Spit?s backing and call-out vocals to the hilt.
Elsewhere there is goth madness with ?Dead Girl Walking?, the electroclash Depeche Mode-doing-metal ?Pussywhipped?, the cabaret-metal camp of ?Top Of The World? and a bonus cover of the Rocky Horror Show?s perennial favourite ?Sweet Transvestite?, played deliciously to the hilt by Zion.
This isn?t for everyone ? but if the idea of a heavy metal gothercise Rocky Horror Show has you drooling with antici??????????. PATION, then you, like us, will find this album indispensible!
4/5*
ROCKPAGES.GR ALBUM REVIEW
(Greece, Feb 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away -
Ultimate Edition
(GMR Music Group)
You might have read that we met the English band coincidentally... It was pure luck as it was a pure blessing... To tell you the truth I?m happy I met them. I?m talking about a band that is fresh, crazy as hell and authentic and I do wish they proceed as they have planned, although music industry is more of a maze nowadays... This Glam/Punk Rock band is a mad hybrid; they describe themselves as a cross between The Damned and Motley Crue, on other hand, Lord Zion?s vocals are so theatric, so ironic, the lyrics are so erodent, the motif is freely... well, judging on the titles... In your face! ?Sex, drugs & Heavy Metal?, ?Dead girl walking?, ?Pussywhipped?, ?Down on you?, ?Sleaze sells... but who?s buying?! As you can appreciate, there are no sexual innuendos here, the band is simply spitting their word in our face, probably like this!
Punk is the base and the system supporting device and the boys and gal from London aim and shoot right between the legs, sorry I meant eyes. Punk alley style, sarcasm and self-sarcasm, tendency for a fistfight and some brawling and tons of power! I?ve seen them live on stage and I was shocked! Very alive! They surely admire Alice Cooper, they surely want to put a theatric show on, they surely want to make a difference...
Thirteen songs await thee, in order to scream and shout and laugh and act anyway you want! Plus, you get to meet a band which is getting ready to get on top of the world. Ain?t that the GREatest thing?
TWIST
MAGAZINE ALBUM REVIEW (Sweden, Feb 2010)
Spit
Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate
Edition (GMR Music Group)
The
fact is that 'We Will not Hurt You (But We Will not Go Away)' is a
pretty great album. It's a bit dirty and in your face but in a really
distanced and ironic way. With his very well articulate voice the
vocalist Lord Zion escorts us forward through lyrics that just turns
more and more absurd. Tracks like 'Dead Girl Walking', 'Pussywhipped'
and really great 'Hunt You Down' makes me really want to see the band in
concert. That would most likely be yet another dimension to be added to
the music and make it even more likable.
NOCTURNAL
MAGAZINE ALBUM REVIEW (Issue 7, Feb 2010)
Spit Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away -
Ultimate Edition
(GMR Music Group)
Old school style
glammy rockers Spit Like This have re-released their debut album on
their new label with an extra track and a bonus video. Not enough to
warrant a second copy perhaps but if you haven?t picked the album up
yet then the Ultimate Edition makes this perfect timing.
The Spit Like This sound is a varied mix of influences fused into what
is essentially big haired, hard drinking, tattooed, sex fuelled, hard
rock with a huge sense of humour and a collective tongue that may have
been stapled into the cheek. If that all sounds a bit cheesy to you then
sure, they do walk a thin line over the chasm of becoming a cartoon, but
they tear across that line with a devil may care attitude, a glint in
the eye and a manic grin so contagious you cant help but love them.
But there?s more to it than that. Not least amongst the appeal is the
authenticity of it all. At a time where every alternative band wants to
talk about being a ?voice for the kids? and ?knowing what it?s
like to be different? Spit Like This are the real deal. Music for
teenage rebellion without going on about the fact that it is. Songs like
Sex, Drugs & Heavy Metal and tracks about individuality sit along
side those about oral sex and selling your panties. SLT write about
getting suited and booted and not caring what anyone thinks not because
it?s ?rock n roll? but because, like all good bands, they write
from life.
Better still they take a genre that?s a well trodden path and bring
some new ideas to the party. Clearly they have been listening to more
than just one type of music and they pull elements from across the rock
spectrum into their sound. Sex, Drugs & Heavy Metal wears its heart
on its sleeve and gives you what you?d expect, squealing guitars, sing
along choruses and all. Heart Thief has a bass that must have been
designed with pogoing in mind as it?s sheer bounce, while Dead Girl
Walking has The Cramps meeting Nick Cave in one of my favourite tracks
of the album.
Pussywhipped is of a much slower pace but no less entertaining and
pushes up the glam factor right to the long guitar outro. The extra
track for the Ultimate Edition is live favourite Sweet Transvestite. As
always what?s interesting about a cover is where the focus and
emphasis is placed in the re-interpretation. On the record it?s not
quite as fantastic as the awesome live version, but still thoroughly
entertaining.
Obviously it?s these musical properties that are what?s really
important but being fronted by what just might be the sexiest couple in
rock cant do them any harm either.
Spit Like This are about sex and partying as much as they are about
alienation and refusal to conform, but they?re having a lot of fun and
not taking it too seriously so why should you? Grab the album and join
the party. And if you?re not convinced? Well, they wont hurt you, but
they wont go away.
ROCK
TRIBUNE MAGAZINE ALBUM REVIEW (Belgium, Feb 2010)
Spit
Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate
Edition (GMR Music Group)
85/100
POWERPLAY
FEBRUARY 2010
Spit
Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate
Edition (GMR Music Group)
"SPiT
LiKE THiS are never going to win any awards for being original, but they
may well win some for having attitude and being hugely entertaining.
Yes, we've heard sleazy glam metal like this a million times before, but
it doesn't stop it being fun. Plus, with SPiT LiKE THiS boasting
their notorious tongue-in-cheek sense of humour at every turn, it's hard
not to get swept away by their infectious enthusiasm for what they're
doing. All of this helps you ignore that it's business as usual
for the infamous act. Offering up essentially a British version of
acts like Robin Black and Trashlight Vision, but louder and more
raucous, SPiT LiKE THiS also bring to mind a dirtier version of
Tigertailz, but fronted by Steve Strange of Dead Or Alive! Songs
like "Sex, Drugs & Heavy Metal", "Down On You"
and "Trick Or Mistreat" are fun chunks of old school sleaze
rock goodness...This is a fun glam album that sounds like a quickie in
an alley - messy and fun! 5/6"
DANGERDOG.COM
JANUARY 2010
Spit
Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate
Edition (GMR Music Group)
"Somewhere between Rocky Horror Picture Show and Alice Cooper, punk rock and metal, parody and theatre of the absurd there lies the UK's Spit Like This, a glam band with a lot on its mind and the musical chops to express it. Already freaking people out in their native land, We Won't Hurt You (But We Won't Go Away) blends rock, punk, metal, and even psychobilly into a sonically entertaining amalgam sure to stupefy the most resolved listener. Songs like Sex, Drugs & Heavy Metal or Young, Dumb and Full of Fun are overstatements of crass vulgarity and quirky hooks. Dirty-minded and decadent can only describe Down On You, Pussywhipped, and Sleaze Sells, But Who's Buying where SLT's crafty creativity shines over their dark hearts...We Won't Hurt You (But We Won't Go Away) is strange and sophomoric lyric, talented and tawdry musicianship, and exaggerated and entertaining theatre... Pompous, prurient, and vulgar, Spit Like This's We Won't Hurt You (But We Won't Go Away) is likely to entertain, intrigue, or simply disgust."
UBER
ROCK NOVEMBER 2009
Spit
Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away - Ultimate Edition (GMR
Music Group)
"Dare
you open this Pandora's box of twisted, dark, glam, sleazy, theatrically
punctuated rock? For the best results put the headphones on, sit back,
crank it up to almost uncomfortable levels and open your mind to take it
all in. You won't regret it.
'Turn up the
level!!!!' snarls Lord Zion as he cracks the whip on set opener 'Sex,
Drugs & Heavy Metal' and that, as the song goes, is all I ever
needed. A big fat rousing "fuck yeah" to that Mr Zion, sir.
There's a dash of 70's glam rock, a little of that US glam and a
splattering of sleaze as well for good measure on this album...and some
80's pop craft too. But don't be fooled - there is so much more to this
album. It is dramatic and grande and why fucking not?
People will no
doubt try and pigeon hole this as simply a glam album but there's a lot
more going on than that; I've just heard a dash of Adam And The Ants
being played with the spirit of Sigue Sigue Sputnik using the Pistols'
amps. It's a right jolly mixed bag we have here folks - one minute I
think that's a Marilyn Manson drum beat but then I hear a bitchin' riff
on Cyndi Rott's axe bleed through my speakers, and that's something that
someone like Manson just doesn't have. We have darkness and light, hell
'Dead Girl Walking' mixes The Cramps with this "noughties glam
slam" and mighty fine it is too.
I had a tune that
I couldn't stop humming for the past week and I couldn't for the life of
me think what it was until it came rolling out of the speakers at me;
Spit Like This had planted a glam bomb in my head, called it
'Pussywhipped' and cursed it with an electronic intro that twists into
some mighty fine axe work once again from Herr Rott. Damn it, I'm not
even sure I should be liking this....but I do.
There is a feeling
of twisted theatre about this record and I'm sure Lord Zion intended to
wear his influences on his sleeve.....that is if he could be bothered to
wear any sleeves. This is a right bitch's brew spread over fourteen
tracks and all wrapped up in a lavish package. Spit Like This are a band
who are intent and focussed on delivering the real deal so honour that
attitude people - don't go and download this, buy it! Go see one of the
shows or badger your local HMV or independent shop to stock it. Music is
still very much a tactile experience and this is a band that has worked
damn hard to produce a product that needs to be seen from the poster and
classy artwork. Spit Like This should be massive in 2010 and you can say
you were there when they took off.
I took the liberty
of getting the low down from Lord Zion on what the album's songs were
about and he duly obliged. In a nutshell, we have songs about a rock 'n'
roll call to arms, necrophilia, soiled knickers, oral sex....and that's
just mentioning a few. I could have reproduced them here but I thought
I'd let the listener guess which is which! This is a band that doesn't
want to be the next Guns N' Roses or Motley Crue but the first Spit Like
This! There are definitely bits and bobs of such rock monsters in this
record but it does stand alone and is certainly original. Go check it
out before you have to play catch up with the cool, in-the-know
set"
NEMESIS
TO GO MAY 2009
"Spit
Like This - We Won't Hurt You But We Won't Go Away (Cargo)
There's nothing like starting as you mean to go on. Spit Like This open
their album with a song called 'Sex, Drugs And Heavy Metal', which lets
us know exactly what we're in for. The song is a glam-slam calling card
dropped on the mat, a statement of intent that stakes out the band's
territory in no uncertain fashion. And if you want to get territorial
about it, I'd say the Kingdom Of Spit Like This lies somewhere between
AC/DC's Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and Bangkok Shocks, Saigon
Shakes by Hanoi Rocks - but they've probably got a reciprocal trade
agreement with the People's Republic Of Punk Rock in there somewhere,
too.
Mixing
gutsy, unpretentious, glammed-up rock wiith a heathy dose of punk
attitude and a very British sense of knockabout humour, Spit Like This
certainly don't deal in introspection and sophistication. That stuff is
for wimps. They're a loud, trashy, and unashamedly good-time
bunch of rockers. They're sussed enough to keep it simple and direct,
and as a result We Won't hurt You But We Won't Go Away is like
being slapped upside the head with thirteen hefty glam-hammers.
The
band drop a dollop of pop suss into the brew, too - check out the mighty
neo-Glitter band riff 'n' wallop of 'Heart Theif', and the Suzy Quatro
handclaps of 'Trust Your Instincts'. Spit Like This could easily have
been chart stars in the glamtastic seventies. You can imagine them
mixing it with the likes of Wizzard and The Sweet on Top Of The Pops,
matching 'em riff for riff. Mind you, dear old Top Of The Pops would've
probably censored 'Down On You', which challenges Frank Zappa in the
Rude Rock Song stakes. Meanwhile, 'Sleaze Sells...But Who's Buying?' is
one of those boisterous Friday-night-and-I-just-got-paid anthems that'll
have 'em moshing when it comes on the jukebox down the Crobar. It's all
instant classic stuff, and if there's not much in the way of innovation
or self-consciously furrowed-brow boundary pushing here - well, that's
missing the point. The Spit Like This agenda is simple: they're here to
get rocked. Rock, as I believe the saying has it, On."
WALL OF SOUND
FEBRUARY 2009
"Though Spit Like This have been gigging and recording for years,
this is the band's first true studio album, and it's a damn fine one. If
you're sick of bands who have 'a sound' and you're ready to rediscover
what rock'n'roll is really all about, there could be no finer place to
start. The variety on show here is just as dazzling as the CD itself.
Setting out their stall with straightforward opener 'Sex Drugs &
Heavy Metal', the band show a hint of what's to come with the glam rock
inspired 'Heart Thief', where there's more of their character on show.
From then on, it's a rollercoaster ride all the way, as Spit Like This
prove that they're not afraid to take you anywhere. From the eerie
soundscape of 'Dead Girl Walking', through the menace and dark
introspection of 'Act of God' and the epic musicality of 'Pussywhipped',
to the rock'n'roll masterclass of 'Coming After You' and the
irresistible madness of 'Sleaze Sells...But Who's Buying?', this is an
album full of surprises. To describe it as an over-all experience, it's
best to imagine it as a visit to New Orleans during Mardi Gras - imagine
good times with your buddies, loud music, drunken debauchery, an edge of
danger, a side-order of sleaze, and a healthy dose of the macabre. This
is music as it ought to be."
GLiTZiNE EZiNE
JANUARY 2009
"Admiration. That's a bold opening word for the review of a debut
album from a young British band, but admire Spit Like This I do. I had
been impressed from afar by their shameless self-promotion and their
hard worth ethic of striving to do everything bigger and better than
their contemporaries. I couldn't even visit the winter Memorabilia show
at Birmingham's NEC to meet my favourite Z-list actors without seeing
SLT's Lord Zion and Vikki Spit selling shirts and handing out "Kill
A Chav" stickers. At last month's Hard Rock Hell 2 festival, I
continued to be blown away as the band seemingly spent the entire
evening before their (horribly early) set on the weekend's second day
covering the prison complex...umm...I mean holiday camp with scores of
promo posters and putting a flyer in almost every sweaty hand. But, of
course, it worked a fuckin' treat as, after what seemed like mere
minutes after retiring to their luxury apartments, hundreds of
dishevelled rock fans turned up to see Spit Like This open the day's
proceedings on the stroke of midday. Their brand of dark, camp
entertainment turned the lunch hour into the witching hour and they
closed their set as haunted heroes and heroine.
I was impressed enough to shell out for the album 'We Won't Hurt You
(But We Won't Go Away)' - that's right, no fancy promo discs for this
righteous reviewer! In all honesty, I was impressed before I even got to
put the disc in the ol' death deck. The cover art and booklet are simply
stunning and pretty much everything you look for with any release.
Again, Spit Like This are showing others how to do it. Yes, the awesome
cover painting does make it look like the end of a penis is poking out
of Vikki's hot pants but, c'mon, that's how rock 'n' roll myths are
made, right?!
The album itself is a devil's dozen of amazingly well-produced and
freakishly fun dark terror tunes that are equal parts ambitious,
self-indulgent and ass-kickingly awesome. Gloriously titled opener 'Sex,
Drugs & Heavy Metal' is infected with superb backing vocals that
happily haunt the entire record, a record that careens from vile
vaudeville to killer cabaret. Murder ballad 'Dead Girl Walking' bleeds
into serial killer tune 'Hunt You Down' with its War Machine-style riff.
'Pussywhipped' opens with unlikely yet excellent hints of Sigue Sigue
Sputnik with its 80's sounding synth, before turning into a classic rock
tune as soon as the full moon appears. 'Coming After You', an 80's metal
throwback, is the nearest you'll get to a whiff of filler but, hey,
we've all got our upside down crosses to bear. 'Sleaze Sells...But Who's
Buying?' is great and the album ends in style with 'Trick Or Mistreat'.
You just know that Spit Like This are gonna tour the ass off this
record. They will spread their word to thousands and they are
courageously confident enough to pull it off. We need bands like this.
We need people who will keep going until they get what they want. Spit
Like This are deadly serious about their band without taking themselves
too seriously - does that make sense? There is a dark humour to the band
and their work - theirs is a tongue in the cheek of anyone who will
listen. There is no point in being clever if you have bad judgement -
Spit Like This appear to be the former while being severely devoid of
the latter. On the strength of what I have seen and heard recently, the
Spit Like This story will be a successful, albeit darkly twisted,
one."
TOP ROCK RADiO,
NOVEMBER 2008
"'We Wont Hurt You (But We Won't Go Away)' has to be the release of
the year, an album that will take you on a roller coaster ride through
13 amazing tracks, The story unfolds as each track plays taking the
listener on a journey through catchy rock that you will be singing along
to, picking up glam and punk themes and even a "big band" jazz
feel along the way. The true stadium tracks are guaranteed and your
experience will even witness the darker gothic side of a band that
demand attention and you will be subservient. This is a must have
CD for any collection - The Beerman gives it 10/10"
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