Smudge’s debut long-player is an appropriately scuzzy, dirty affair. Hailing from Sydney, the band’s main claim to fame was their relationship with Evan Dando – mainman Tom Morgan co-wrote songs for ‘It’s A Shame About Ray’ with the Lemonhead – but there’s plenty of good stuff here.
Short, sharp, snappy songs like ‘Bodyshirt’, ‘Scary Cassettes’ and the title track are messy snapshots of their unpretentious, happy-go-lucky approach to songwriting and slacker attitude. The four seconds of ‘Mr. Coffee Man’ is pointless, but, on the whole, this reissue is fun, if not life-altering, stuff.
6/10
Words by Mischa Pearlman
