Album Review: Endless Boogie - Long Island

New York's Endless Boogie took their time to arrive; they'd been together years before playing their first show and it was almost a decade since their formation that their first LP saw the light of day. But the band were born fully formed and seemingly haven't changed much since. It seems a cop out on paper, but Long Island is an Endless Boogie record – no more, no less. The songs are lengthy, built around seemingly simple but deceptively captivating guitar riffs that just chug forever, with the wild vocal of frontman Paul 'Top Dollar' Major adding an extreme sense of colour.

It begins with ferocity, The Savagista monstrous 13-and-a-half minutes of boogie-down classic rock with Major delivering a croon more guttural than on past records, the crust of his voice perfectly at odds with the high pitched wailing of his lead guitar. Taking Out The Trash is only half as long, perhaps mercifully for some, and another Endless Boogie must-have on any road trip playlist. The slow-creeping threatens to explode for its entire nine minutes but remains well restrained, the sharp General Admission might be the band's best simple rocker to date while 14-minute closer The Montgomery Manuscript builds beautifully throughout, before settling right down to close the album inconspicuously.

Long Island is 80 minutes of groovy, grimy, utter indulgence that shows a band who do what they do with scant regard for anything else and no interest in changing. Zone out, smile wide and let the Boogie take you over again; if you're already a fan then you're going to be very happy.