The Hatepinks

The Hatepinks

Tete Malade/Sick In The Head

[3.5/5] Following last year’s 16-minute album Plastic Bag Ambitions comes Tete Malade/Sick In The Head, a nine-minute affair (make that eight, as the exceedingly vacuous waste-of-a-track “Your Ass Is A Stereotype” is trés horrible) that shows our favorite French provocateurs, The Hatepinks, as raucous and in-your-face as ever. For those uninitiated, expect quirky-bordering-on-cartoonish, rock ’n’ roll-drenched punk that recalls old-school U.K. greats the Adicts (especially on the fierce pair “My City Is Sick Of Pizza” and “In The Front”) with a more minimalist and arty Wire vibe; or, to compare to a punk band of recent vintage, think the Briefs?only crazier. As for the all-important lyrical front, there’s an abundance of urgent, repetitive bon mots that in most cases should be taken with a proverbial grain of salt?when there actually are lyrics, that is, and not just shouts of the song title and crazed “Bing bang boom bas.” (TKO) Janelle Jones

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