Blog: Pretty Much Amazing

On the first track on their second album (first on the wonderful Matador Records) Harlem insist that they won't help you out if you've done them wrong. They won't even put you out if you're on fire. They don't say they'd be the ones to set you on fire, but I think they would – it's in that simple punk energy, classic rock structure, uncomplicated harmony, like an angrier, punkier Born Ruffians. I thought about other bands with lineups like Harlem's – No Age, Wavves, Japandroids – all brash lo-fi, a deliberate attempt to sound recorded in a [...]