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):
These L.A. lounge lizards get one point right off the bat for naming their album after a classic novel by crime author Jim Thompson.
But that’s all they get — sadly, Savage Night the CD doesn’t pack even a fraction of the bleak vision and visceral power of the book. Actually, with their vibrato-guitar twang, Roy Orbinson-impersonator vocals, hypnotic noir grooves and kitschy covers of Lee Hazelwood (Cheat), Henry Mancini (Experiment In Terror) and Tom Waits (Jockey Full Of Bourbon), the Hawaiians are closer in spirit to Tarantino than Thompson. Which makes sense: They were reportedly the house band at Quentin’s favourite hangout while he was working on Pulp Fiction.
