999 - Death In Soho

First new studio album in nine years from 999

There can’t be mvany 1976 UK punk bands extant that have never split and still boast three original members; in fact, only The Stranglers spring to mind. Singer/guitarist Nick Cash, guitarist Guy Days and drummer Pablo Labritain have been aided by the bass-playing talents of Lurker Arturo Bassick for so long now that he’s hardly a new boy, and that familiarity and cohesion can only have helped on this, the band’s first new album in nine years. Engineered by former Vibrators bassist Pat Collier at Perry Vale Studios, Death In Soho does a quite impressive job of capturing the long-established 999 sound: chugging, clipped riffs, solid drumming, and Cash’s trademark shrill vocals. To be honest, as far as material goes there’s not much here that the band couldn’t have come up with 30 years ago, but the production is excellent, the delivery punchy as all hell, and there are no signs here of a bunch of old school punks just going through the motions.

3 stars 3 stars 3 stars

Overground | OVER 119 VP CD

Reviewed by Shane Baldwin
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