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):
They come from Tokyo. They have names like Moo-Stop and Bukka. They have a cutesy-poo cartoon bear mascot.
Put it all together and you’d expect Zoobombs to be another go-go pop act like Pizzicato Five. Wrongo. The ’Bombs will rock you like a hurricane — or at least a blues explosion. As they did on their 1998 debut Welcome Back, this quartet tap into the same primal blooz vein as Jon Spencer and co., churning out slabs of fatback groove as greasy as any Fat Possum act. But here they also expand to include rollicking Rolling Stonesy rockers (check the Sympathy For The Devil vibe of Mo Funky) and ballads (like the Memory Motel melancholy of Pleasure Drop). Meanwhile, Bomb The Bomb raps the rap, 4190 flirts with trip-hop and Ships Are Alright takes a (Jimmy) Page from Led Zeppelin’s folk-blues fakebook. And any band that covers Spinal Tap’s Gimme Some Money is the bomb in my opinion.
