This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
You might recognize these New York City sewer rats as the punk band from Spike Lee’s ’70s drama Summer Of Sam. Rest assured they didn’t change their sound for the film — hell, I bet they didn’t even change their clothes.
From the tips of their mohawks to the soles of their Doc Martens, the supercharged Lower East Side Stitches are the reincarnation of every young, loud and snotty band that ever played CBGB for the door. And this graffiti-titled debut is straight from the valley of ’77: It features The Ramones’ blitzkreig-bop drums, Steve Jones’ pretty vacant guitars and Johnny Thunders’ junkie nihilism, all fused and sonically reduced to punk rock’s core elements — three chords and the truth.
