Back in the '90s, when I was doing music reviews, the magazine I freelanced for sent me Dimestore Haloes' Thrill City Crime Control, which caught my eye because it came out on Joey Vindictive's — of The Vindictives fame — label, VML Records. And if memory serves, he produced it as well. Thrill City was on the glam side but pretty good. I kept 5 of the 12 songs and still listen to it every once in a while, with "Stiletto Baby" still pumping me up. (Sadly, on Bandcamp the excellent cover of "Your Cheating' Heart" is missing. I guess they're afraid of litigation from Hank Williams, Sr.'s estate.)
Anyway, I picked up Singles Going Unsteady (1996-2001) last month. Sounds like it's a 10-song comp put together for Bandcamp. The first 7 tracks are really good; the last 3 tracks really drop in production quality, so I'm not keeping them; the first of the triad, "Hate My Generation", sounds so much better on Thrill City Crime Control, I'm not sure why the Haloes' Chaz Matthews put the 7" version on this comp . . . maybe happy memories from the recording process?
The first 7 tracks from Singles Going Unsteady clocks in at 18 minutes. Will make good listening in the car when I'm running to the store.
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