Memphis’s overlords of the garage rock resurgence, Goner Records, have just re-issued Eddy Current Suppression Ring’s self-titled debut album for the first time in the United States.
Tracked in only four hours on a Saturday afternoon in 2006, the album was originally released on Australia’s Dropkick Records, with very few imports making their way across the pond. After the infectious success of 2008’s “Primary Colors,” Goner saw fit to give the self-titled album a proper release stateside.
The band is currently hosting two songs from the album, “Get Up Morning” and “Precious Rose,” over on their MySpace page.
A full track listing can be seen below.
1. Get Up Morning
2. Cool Ice Cream
3. Pitch A Tent
4. Having a Hard Time
5. Yo-yo Man
6. Do My Thing
7. Precious Rose
8. Insufficient Funds
9. Winter’s Warm
10. It’s All Square
11. Turn Your Page
The band draws their name from the small copper rings found on electrical transformers, including those used at the vinyl pressing plant where two of the members are employed. Their lo-fi recordings and stripped-down song structures paired with animated live sets have earned them frequent comparisons to The Stooges as well as other garage titans like Wire, Jay Reatard, and The Fall.
You can expect them to hit the continental states sometime in early 2010, so get your lampshades and dancing shoes ready. In the mean time, you can read what a few critics had to say about 2008’s Primary Colors.
“The best fun house since Fun House… Iggy would approve.” – Alternative Press
“Three-plus decades after the initial dispensation, one more punk band out of the blue (Melbourne, but it could be anywhere in the English-speaking world) does the same thing punk bands have always done, only not exactly plus it sounds like they just thought of it last week, three days after they started practicing in the bassist’s basement. Off-key chants, minimal chords, spare arrangements, into confusion rather than rage from ‘long-term memory loss’ to ‘a little bit of kissing and a whole lot of hugging.’ Some are no longer susceptible to this recurrent miracle. Too bad for them.” – MSN
“The Australian quartet works with the basics to produce a simple, hooky garage punk racket, yet delivers a surprisingly multi-layered mixture when everything is said and done.” – DUSTED
Chicago’s garage-pop brain trust CoCoComa have posted another early track from their forthcoming second album, “Things Are Not All Right,” care of Memphis’s Goner Records, former home of Jay Reatard and currently of Box Elders, Ty Segall, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, and many others.