Take the Lovers Home Tonight

Take the Lovers Home Tonight is unselfconscious, senseless, silly, messy, stains-and-all indie party music. Each one of Mother & the Addicts' members must play with his or her eyes bugged out, and if any one of them ever drops out during a song, it's only long enough to wipe off some sweat. On the Glasgow band's first album, following a late-2004 single (included here), the band lets rip like a neo-post-punk/new wave Mudhoney, slashing and careening away, with the odd hummable melody occasionally laid on top of all the noise. There will always be a need for this kind of thing (i.e., dumb music made by smart people), at least when it's done well, as heard here. (Note: the female member in this band isn't Mother. Mother is a fellow named Sam.) ~ Andy Kellman