EP Review: Johny Skullknuckles – A Face Made For Radio

The Kopek Millionaires‘ singer guitarist just can’t seem to stop himself making music. And thank goodness for that, because he is mining a particularly rich vein of trashy punk-pop that has an almost unique and nostalgic charm. Nostalgic? Sure. There’s a strong dash of 1978 in these spiky bursts of punky goodness that give a flavour of what might have happened if Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto had smashed into the Dead Boys in some kind of colossal punk rock atomic collider. A Face Made For Radio veers between joyous, careering poppy R&B (Turn My Day To Night) to a kind of trashy Jilted John-ish self-analysing ode to lost love (Overattached). I’d assumed that Raped‘s Cheap Night Out was an addition to the well-established punk canon of songs about wanking. I...