Say Something Nasty in Bloomington, MN

Five years into their career,
Nashville Pussy
are showing no signs of maturing -- which is great news for the fans.
Say Something Nasty
is cut from the same cloth as its two predecessors, fusing
garage
-style
AC/DC
boogie
with a gleefully unrepentant embrace of white-trash decadence. Although most of the songs are little more than a place to hang gimmicky catch phrases like
"You Give Drugs a Bad Name"
and
"Keep on Fucking,"
the entire
package, taken as a whole, is satisfying just the same. Lead guitarist
Ruyter Suys
emerges as the group's secret weapon here -- her
Angus Young
-style fretboard scrabbling raises the excitement level considerably -- while the absence of original bassist
Corey Parks
is virtually unnoticeable on record (her physical presence and on-stage antics were
Parks
' most memorable contributions to the band). Amidst all the decidedly unmelodic noisemaking,
"Here's to Your Destruction"
-- smartly placed in the middle of the record -- provides a refreshing change of pace, featuring a heavy-handed take on
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Southern boogie
. Gloriously dumb fun. ~ Andy Hinds