This photocopy glue version was given in advance during their '98 europeen tour.

Snot, snot, snot! This isn’t a garage-punk record, it’s a used Kleenex! Maybe I just don’t listen to contemporary garage sounds enough, but Nicky, Micky, Jamie, and Camby Shutdown, with the help of Scotty 66 on drums (actually, it’s the Corduroy gang from down under), really managed to flabber-gasp me with this lo-fi looking yet mid-fi sounding affair. Nicky takes his vocal cues from Corduroy faves Green On Red, vociferatin’ all through the alb like a pissed Dan Stuart with a cold, hence the triple snot remark. Beautiful! The organ’s a-pumpin’, the classic garage licks and riffs are tackled, abused and kicked around like a pickled human head at a pre-Colombian soccer game, and the songs… They truly do kill, be it the band’s frantic theme tune, with its soulful rasp of an intro (“I never had no money, and no luck with chicks, I’m shutdown 66!”), the killer R&B feast of “Gone For Bad”, the souped-up Diddley stylings of “Knock On Your Window”, or the quintessential Teengenerate tribute “Fink Is The King” (of rock n’roll, that is), complete with Fink-style muffled Rob Youngerisms. Somewhat akin to a slightly wiser version of the Sexareenos, Shutdown 66 kicked my ass across the room, and I came back for more.