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		<title>Album Of The Week: Turbo Fruits – Echo Kid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonas Stein - while he and Be Your Own Pet were all still employed - used to keep Turbo Fruits as a side-project, and occasionally roped in BYOP members for band duties. Their first self-titled outing, back in 2007, was a scrappy little terrier of an album, a gleefully messy affair; this time out, as a full-time gig, they've managed to keep the charm, but they've ramped the tunes well up to eleven and beyond.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-176" title="Turbo Fruits - Echo Kid" src="http://showburner.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TurboFruits_EchoKid-460x460.jpg" alt="Turbo Fruits - Echo Kid" width="460" height="460" />Jonas Stein &#8211; while he and Be Your Own Pet were all still employed &#8211; used to keep Turbo Fruits as a side-project, and occasionally roped in BYOP members for band duties. Their first self-titled outing, back in 2007, was a scrappy little terrier of an album, a gleefully messy affair; this time out, as a full-time gig, they&#8217;ve managed to keep the charm, but they&#8217;ve ramped the tunes well up to eleven and beyond.</p>
<p>At heart this is an album of great joy &#8211; despite the high voltage tempo, it&#8217;s got a bloody great grin on its face. <em>Naked With You</em>, <em>Trouble!</em>, and the brilliantly titled <em>Mama&#8217;s Mad Cos I Fried My Brain</em> all speed along like a toddler full of sugar, carried on partially by their own momentum, and only just managing to keep it all together. It&#8217;s got to be really difficult to make it sound this nonchalantly chaotic.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s not a huge range on display here &#8211; it goes from a standing start to a hundred miles an hour in about half a second and then stays there for forty minutes &#8211; but I&#8217;ve always been a big fan of any band who knows what they do best and concentrates on just doing it better each time. Granted, <em>On The Road</em>, <em>Hold Me, </em>and <em>My Stupid Heart</em> venture towards Roy Orbison&#8217;s turf, and there are constant reminders that this is an album born in Nashville, but otherwise there&#8217;s little respite from a torrent of fuzzy pop hooks played at high speeds &#8211; which is both right and proper.</p>
<p>With a rumbunctious and clattering heart, this lot of songs have a new and shinier layer of 50s and 60s hooks overlaid on top of its defiantly garage foundation, like The Replacements playing Redd Kross songs. It is a snotty slice of modern Americana, and it&#8217;s a joy. What a gem.</p>
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