THE NECKERS
Love & Infection
Independent
· How can you not love Calgary’s The Neckers and their "feel-good it’s summer" subject matter?
Love fades and infections heal, but one thing you can count on in Calgary is The Neckers. The guitar-slingin’ garage rockers have been playing this game for a long, long time, releasing their debut, A Whole Mess O’ Trouble, in 2001, a self-titled followup in 2004 and now this brand spankin’ new collection for 2006, Love and Infection.
The songs traverse the same kind of feel-good subject matter that The Neckers have always been obsessed with – girls ("Angelie"), cars ("Steal that Car") and girls in cars ("Repeat Last Summer"), and vocalist/harmonica man Bil Hetherington still sounds like he’s having a blast.
The rest of the band is on point as well, with guitarist Jim Blood still blasting some of the bounciest riffs in the city (check his solo on "Love & Affection"), bass player Steve Elaschuk keeping it tight, and drummer Brendan Tincher peppering the songs with fills aplenty all while harmonizing with Hetherington. Opener "What About Me?," "Angelie" and "Hang Around" are all highlights, and just like their last album’s "Have Love Will Travel," Love & Infection’s closer is a sax-soaked take on Gino Washington’s "Gino is a Coward." At just over 28 minutes, this should be the soundtrack to your summer.
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