Montreal 's BOOTSAUCE present us with their debut album, so-called apparently, as the band believed that The Brown Album, musically, can be somewhere between THE BEATLES and PRINCE!!! As you can probably guess, Bootsauce aren't your regular run-of-the-mill band, and this isn't your everyday album either!
The Brown Album is a mixture of funk, rock, and soul, which the five band members claim is a collection of a "few of their favourite things." Humour and a sense of fun obviously come very high on their list of priorities, as the first track - "Let's Eat Out" - is apparently a song about food, food and sex! This sets the mood for the remainder of the album - fun rock n' roll with wicked lyrics, but which can sometimes be taken a bit too far. "Scratching the Whole," "Sex Marine," and "Play With Me" being typical Bootsauce compositions. However, that said, the band do manage to come up with good strong melodies and hooklines, and the production (courtesy of the Fudge Brothers and Corky Laing) leaves little to complain about. Each instrument, Drew Ling's vocals, and even Pere Fume's rap on "Sex Marine" are clearly defined, and at the same time complement the others performances.
Bootsauce are doing something it's not easy to do - being different! By sticking their neck out, and failing to fall into any safe pigeonhole in the process, they're not making things easy for themselves. But they get full marks for managing to make old HOT CHOCOLATE song, "Everyone's a Winner," credible on a 90s rock album!
Grade B
Grade B
Nick Douglas
Riff raff
March 1992
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