The Almighty Defenders - S/T

The garage-rock bandgasm that is The Almighty Defenders finds the King Khan And The BBQ Show and the Black Lips in a gospel-inspired collaboration resulting from the Lips fleeing India and ending up at Khan's Berlin flat. Their self-titled debut is pretty much just what you'd expect: distortedly ecstatic call-and-response vocals, 1950s song structures and the lowest in lo-fi recording. While the music isn't nearly as memorable as what King Khan, Mark Sultan or the Black Lips are capable of on their own, there's an infectious vibe of wasted camaraderie that makes you want to down a bunch of tequila shots and praise the gods of garage in the best way possible: starting a band of your own. The Almighty Defenders should go over well with the bands' current congregations. but I doubt we'll see many new converts -Eye Weekly