This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Get ready to meet your new favourite band: The Datsuns. At least, these New Zealand riff-rawk upstarts oughta be your new favourites — especially if your old favourites include Ted Nugent, Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, The New York Dolls and The MC5.
You’ll find traces of all of them in the frenzied firepower of this rambunctious foursome’s debut album, a 10-song masterpiece of four-chord Marshall stack anthems, wah-wah pedal workouts, hard-driving cowbell-boogie backbeats and vocals just this side of throat-shredding hysteria. The glam-slamming Lady is the best song KISS never wrote, the robo-rocking Harmonic Generator is the best song The Cars never wrote, and MF From Hell — yes, it stands for what you think — is a better song than most bands ever write. Put ’em all together and you’ve got a disc with enough power to send The Hives back to Sweden with their tails between their legs. Take The Datsuns for a test-drive now. And don’t forget to buckle up.
