Album Review: Velociraptor - The World Warriors

Word of warning before reading this review: those readers allergic to the word 'party' look away now. There's something undeniably likeable about Velociraptor, the juggernaut responsible for mega hits like Sleep With The Fishes, a band whose increasing roster of band members range anywhere in number between one and twelve and a bunch whom play decidedly Dick Dale party garage and punk party tunes, living that dream that every post-high school pre-26-year-old person that ever picked up an instrument dreamed of doing before they got married, bought some pets and worked at Championship Vinyl. The deceptively uncontrived James Neale (chief song writer) thought it was always going to be a guaranteed party with all your mates along for the ride, and so it sounds like an album where everyone gets a chance to contribute to a song, even if it's only 'oohs' and 'ahhs'.

Putting eight songs to tape hasn't sounded this much fun since the Frowning Clouds kicked off the mid-'60s rock revival, and no doubt The World Warriors – the 'Raptors first release since the 2010 debut EP – sounds like they are having more fun than ever as a band. The track The Walk On By takes tips from the Futurama theme song, and Do The Ruby will get any Tuesday night part-time hospitality employee party going, but it's the tracks Cynthia and Riot that take the band's sound a bit further, with overall better song writing and production. Shucks, the mini-LP sounds like it was written, recorded, mixed and mastered in the time it takes you to read the Drum from start to finish, and they've still managed to come away with a pretty slick sounding sampler. Top shit.