Le Carogne TuttiFuzzy

The quintet of thugs that terrorizes the extreme west of Liguria reaches their fourth work. Seven tracks in which they continue their pounding lesson of garage punk, combining a typically Italian beat approach from the 60s with a vein that comes from Stooges, MC5, and early punk rock of the ’77 brand. All executed and presented with great maturity and creativity. A top-quality album!

Antonio Bacciocchi – RadioCOOP 26/11/2019

Dusty and Underground.

Ready to embrace Beat rhythms and pounding forms of Garage Punk.

Defined by the alternation between Italian lyrics and Anglophilia. They present themselves with a 10″ marked Area Pirata (and a terrible official video)

Ladies and gentlemen… here’s the new release from Le carogne, a Ligurian band now enriched with a second guitar capable of giving the sound diversified nuances compared to the recent past.

Opening the band’s fourth album is a repeated riffing with a retro flavor, in which the filtered voice inserts itself between pauses and silences, narrated by the excellent work on the skins, ready to maintain the groove by modulating the dancing beat of Peonia, in which we find lost Snaporaz sensations.

The world narrated by the quintet appears well-defined and functional, just as the excellent structure of Night and years demonstrates, which, despite a perfectible pronunciation, ends up being wrapped in a Psych-prog cloak perfect in showing (once again) the potential of ideas. Side A then ends with the notes of Screen addicted, introduced by a full-bodied and directive bass line, following which it seems impossible to remain inert.

The good sensations produced by the vinyl grooves return on side B, opened by I’ve Lost My Way, in which Slavo’s beating draws the ideal habitat for an impeccable sound, here embellished by the unexpected sound of the harmonica. But, reiterating the weakness of the English used, we return to a more successful narration in Italian: Fermo immagine, a driving beat in which gallop rhythms, Surf striations, and seventies metrics are grafted.

Closing the album is the conclusive Monster, in my opinion among the best tracks of the full length, thanks to a deep and conservative sound, in which the tonics appear to be a real added value. The final track, perhaps definable as anomalous compared to the mood of this Tutti Fuzzy, (to me) appeared, from the first listen, as a real new expressive horizon along which to direct oneself to differentiate and play with influences that certainly don’t seem to be lacking among Le carogne.

In short, an album in which the many lights illuminate the few shadows, pushing the accelerator on a packaging defined by good cover art, pleasantly linked to vintage stylism, in perfect line with the proposed sound.

Loris Gualdi – Music on TNT 12/01/2020

For those who follow the less orthodox Italian garage punk scene, in short, the one that goes beyond the beat envelope and the usual down-to-earth homework, Le Carogne are already a well-known name and a certainty. They are even more so with this work, with which they offer seven new pieces. A respectable little record, played greatly. It begins with A tua immagine e somiglianza, a nice electric and tight piece, in Radio Birdman style. It continues with the beat of Peonia and the psychedelic Night and Years (I might be fixated, but I keep smelling Australia: Died Pretty?). Classic and bouncy garage punk of Screen Addicted. More beat with I’ve Lost my Way (suspended between Miracle Workers and Chesterfield Kings, in short, great stuff!). Wonderful Fermo immagine, not cliché also because it’s “worded and sung” in Italian. It closes with Monster, introduced by a fat and belching bass, gradually more metallic, supporting (along with the inevitable guitars and the rest) a final track with dark and lysergic writing. Well done. Available on vinyl.

Stefano Ballini – Trippa Shake Webzine 04/01/2020

Le Carogne have an unmistakable sound: their concoction of garage, beat, and fuzzy punk is now a trademark that makes them immediately recognizable even for those who live outside Ligurian borders and have known them for a relatively short time. With this “TuttiFuzzy” just released by Area Pirata in 10” format, the band from Imperia further dirties their sound, making it slightly more lo-fi and violent. The only exception is the beautiful and melodic “Peonia”, which immediately becomes one of my favorite pieces by the band. The other six tracks of this mini – which includes a total of three songs in Italian and four in English – alternate between psychedelia and rock’n’roll with taste and attitude, adding synthesizers, Theremin, and harmonica to the classic guitar-bass-drums format (but those who know Le Carogne won’t be surprised at all). Special mention, as always, goes to the splendid album artwork curated by Riccardo Rossetti, who, together with his brother Carlo, represents the beating heart of the group from Imperia.

Diego Curcio – Huskercore blog 29/01/2020

Le Carogne celebrate their 10 years of activity with this “TuttiFuzzy“; fourth album for the band, with the evident banner of Sixties Garage clearly visible on the ship. The organ riff of the opening track ‘A tua immagine e somiglianza’ is there to prove it: easily recognizable, it could come from any album of any 80s garage revival group. But then that angry, vaguely psychedelic coda starts, which makes the song take off. Let’s say that the album moves entirely on this dichotomy between sounds, let’s say, quite codified, and rather interesting dark and psych digressions (also listen to Night And Years, or the beginning of Screen Addicted). Le Carogne know how to play, the feeling is that, if they manage to shake off garagist solutions that are a bit obvious at the moment, they will be able to give us even more convincing music in the future. The closing track Monster (a dark and desperate noir song) could be an example.

Denis Prinzio – Impatto Sonoro 31/01/2020

Torrid guitar riffs and a violent cascade of drum beats immediately introduce the incandescent climate of the new work by the Ligurian Le Carogne, and that things would turn out this way, both the name chosen by the band and the cover, the interior of a bar where card games and billiards are distorted by a splatter scene, would have warned anyone who hadn’t had the chance to know Le Carogne in their ten years of activity. The following Peonia keeps the groove high, but with the rebellious boldness of 60s beat, while Night and Years takes on space-like movements in the finale, thanks to the evocative use of the theremin. Screen and Addicted is acidic and corrosive garage, all to be pogo’d tirelessly, while I’ve Lost My Way chooses a more melodic and even epic line in the finale. With Fermo Immagine we return to the Italian language and Italian beat is cited… fun is guaranteed: The Monster closes, a track that deviates from the previous ones for a darker and more abrasive sound, a sick and dirty blues rock, which reminds us, if we had ever forgotten, that rock is in the hidden part of life, the one that is not afraid to get its hands dirty in dark alleys, whether real or metaphorical.

Ignazio Gulotta – Magazzini Inesistenti 17/02/2020

Well yes, I confess, when I first saw this record I thought “I’ll give these guys an extra star just for the title they chose for the CD”. And indeed, the Ligurians deserve this star, for the homage to the legendary “Tutti Pazzi” by Negazione, for the 10-inch vinyl format, and for the opening track “A Tua Immagine e Somiglianza”, a super fuzz hit that reminds of Radio Birdman (and that’s saying something).
This time the Ligurians add a second guitar, and this helps them to vary their sound more than in the past, always and anyway very vintage. Perhaps, for me, even too varied, between Fuzz, Australia, Garage, Beat, and Psychedelia.
But, you know, everyone has their own tastes.

Rating: 3/5

Riki Signorini – Ribelli a Vita Blog 01/02/2020

In difficult times for the record market like this, the Pisan Area Pirata continues its meritorious work of resistance, churning out vinyl records as if there were no tomorrow. One of the latest productions in chronological order is the 10″ “Tutti Fuzzy” by the Ligurian Le Carogne.
Having reached their fifth album and with the novelty of a line-up enriched by a second guitar, Le Carogne celebrate the tenth anniversary of their activity with a gritty garage-punk record in which they string together seven new tracks alternating lyrics in Italian and English, spanning different sonic atmospheres. The title is a tasty reference that makes us think of a due homage to “Tutti Pazzi” by the legendary Negazione, although the assonances with the glorious Turin band are more in the mood than in the actual sound.
The album opens with the catchy “A Tua Immagine e SomiglianzaA track characterized by the sound of keyboards that leads the song, with its stops and gos, into the territories of the most classic mid-eighties garage revival. The followingPeoniacould sail in the realm of beat with its slightly more pop atmospheres, immediately showing that the album doesn’t want to limit itself to just one sonic style. So here comes the first song sung in EnglishNight and Yearswhich turns towards psychedelic atmospheres, then returning to decidedly more intense territories with the trackNight and Yearsa song that shows an excellent underground structure.Screen Addictedcloses the first side showing the most catchy side of the record.
Side B opens with the excellentI’ve Lost My Waya very articulated track enriched by the introduction of the harmonica that gives the song a pleasant retro flavor. WithFermo Immaginewe return to Italian lyrics and the sound goes back to the opening track’s style, with the garage sound shifting towards very engaging surf-rock territories that will surely find its natural habitat in live performances. To conclude the album comes the surprise ofMonstera track that appears decidedly out of context compared to the overall mood of the album, but at the same time shows how the band from Imperia doesn’t want to fossilize on a single rock ‘sub-genre’ but wants to open up to more complex and elaborate structures.
In summary “Tutti Fuzzy” is a well-executed album that shows a healthy band capable of entertaining with every listen both through its easier tracks and surprising when it brings more complex structures into play.

Eliseno Sposato – Sotteranei Pop 19/03/2020

The Baby Fourth work for the Ligurian combo, dedicated to an unstoppable brazen garage-beat-punk. “TuttiFuzzy” is a 10” with seven tracks that leave no escape. It starts with the tight beat of “A tua immagine e somiglianza” to continue with the tight surf-rock of “Peonia” and the circular punk-beat of “Screen addicted”. With “Night and years” the group drags us with an almost understated rock, tense and gloomy, in contrast to the garage/rock’n’roll of “Fermo immagine”. Not in line with the rest of the tracks is “Monster”, for its slow expansion and intensification as the minutes progress.

Vittorio Lanutti – Freak Out 25/09/2020

Regular readers of this blog and listeners of the Voix de Garage show know that I really like this powerful and energetic Italian Garage group, and here they are again with a 25 cm record that I’m savoring while licking my lips as it corresponds to what I hope for from a Garage Punk group!
Blood, sweat, and tears… well, let’s say Fuzz (and it’s written on it, and we’re not deceived about the merchandise), sweat, and guts!
But not only that!
A real Rock vibe!
By a group that has know-how but doesn’t sanitize its message through technical skills… it remains raw as it should always be, rough and brutalizing for the ears with passages bordering on cacophony! It’s enjoyable!
On this 25 cm and these 7 unstoppable tracks, Le Carogne presents its new and 2nd guitarist who comes to muscle up their game, amplify their sound and develop their musical universe!
Since their beginning, Le Carogne has been playing on guitar/organ duels with great relevance, notably because often on their tracks the organ sounds neither sixties nor eighties… and sometimes their guitars add outer space sounds to their garage…
Here again Le Carogne shows that they are certainly an important group in the Garage Punk scene, but also more than that! The song with the horns recalls the best of Rocket From The Crypt, and they are also capable of adding a strong dose of Punk to a pure Rhythm circa 65 track… and many other things too!
Great fun!

Bertrand Tappaz – Review 2019 – 13/12/2019 – VOIX DE GARAGE GRENOBLE