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Can you dig it?

by Sons of Cyrus

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The history of rock'n'roll is also a history of misunderstandings. One of these misinterpretations concerns the word sex (immortalized in the most famous of all phrases). I am firmly convinced that in rock'n'roll the main attraction and attractiveness is not the idea of the vulgar union of copulating bodies, but rather the sensual charisma of the art and its performers. In my opinion, one argument that is often deliberately misused in this context is the exuberant masculinity. On closer inspection, however, musclemen are rather the exception.
Why do I choose this introduction? 25 years ago, at the beginning of the climax of Scandinavian rock, a band was founded in Stockholm, whose music and songs I would describe without hesitation with the words sexy, lustful, attractive, seductive or even erotic.
This band, started by four lanky guys, did everything that for me embodied this greatness of this genre. The rock I like was always the rock of the streets and not the stadiums, the rock of the underdogs and not the clever entrepreneurs. It was the rock that drew its functionality not from meter-high amplifier towers, but precisely from the sexiness of soulful songs.
We are talking about Sons of Cyrus, perhaps one of the most underrated bands of this genre.
Formed in 1996 by Erik, Love, Mackie and Topi, later continued with Max and Torgny on harmonica after Erik left the band, they recorded 3 albums and 7 singles. All songs are characterized by a pleasant brashness, they seem like the whistles of a gang of street boys pressed through the gap in their teeth. Cheeky, presumptuous and impudent. They don't want to know what the world costs, because it already belongs to them.
This double LP combines various singles and sampler contributions and is for me a thank you to all the great memories I had with them and through them and for you a nice opportunity to finally buy great horny garage punk again.

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released July 20, 2021

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