The Jim Jones Revue: The Savage Heart – review

(PIAS)Jim Jones first surfaced in 1989 with Thee Hypnotics, black-leather-clad Stooges fanatics who spread fear and feedback among Paisley-shirted indie wimps. The Stooges remain in the Revue's DNA 23 years on, but these untamed fortysomethings dip into a much wider palette of raucous rock'n'roll. Their third album lurches towards 1970s glam rock, opener It's Gotta Be About Me swaggering like an unlikely collision between Grinderman and Suzi Quatro. Elsewhere, they hurl in rolling pianos and cal...

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