Greatest Beats is the latest album by Montreal based underground Garage Rockers The Jukeez who are Juki, Simon Von Tiki and Oli with guest appearances on the album from Spencer Evoy, Michel Dagenais and Bruno Martel. The album was recorded at Studio Atomique De Montreal.
The album opens with Another Day Another Lie some swaggering garage rock, with Juki's deep female vocals that are a little bit Horrorpops, they attack with guitars trying to get back to a world where the truth means somethings.
Out Of Tune and ever so lightly out of time and place, they are stuck in a Standell's style world, pleading to be left alone, so there hearts can turn to stone, she's gone for good, they will never be in tune with each other.
Obsessed With Me is amphetamine fuelled guitars, feeding that obsession you have with her, she knows just how much you want her, but you are too damn shy to do anything about it, so instead stand there drooling like an idiot.
Watch Out the guitars are super fuzzy, the backing vocal gang are in town, you better Watch Out or your time will be done, especially if you fail to join in with the backing vocals, the guitars will tear you down over that stomping beat.
Goofy Sam could easily be my old friend who was properly goofy, this has a great bass sax part, that keeps coming back to add to the football chant chorus, allowing everyone to freak out to the echo laden bass drum beat.
Wildest Cat In Town has a lazy loping beat and breathy vocals, seducing every boy in town, not just the one she hopes to transfix, by telling him he is The Wildest Cat In Town, even if he's a drip in reality, she's determined to turn his lights on.
One Step At A Time whatever you do don't run before you can walk, take care to take things slow and everything will explode, like the guitars do, when they really want you to leave that garage and rock all over the pace with them.
That Beat is rock solid beneath the fuzz guitars and a sense they want to have more fun than The Courettes on tour, playing this and getting everyone dancing along to That Beat that won’t ever let up, its so groovy and primal.
Transylvania Twist is a stomping rockabilly vampire twist for hanging out somewhere between Brasov and Bran watching the early morning mist clear. Dans Ce Monde is the one song the band sing in there native French, it sounds similar to Les Breastfeeders while taking a dark garage rock descent twisting Devo's Mongoloid into something new.
It's Alright has a far earlier rock & roll twist, with hints at Ronnie Dawson having a dust up with the Shangri La's, outrageous guitars strafing them. The album closes with the main single from the album I Can't Stop Thinking About It, one last fuzzed out garage rock monster of a Dirtbombs cover, that's almost as wild as King Salami & The Cumberland Three, guitars frazzle the mind, while those sultry vocals make you go down on your knees to drool in front of The Jukeez, like they have hypnotized them and will do everything they tell you to do like buy the album.
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