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Washington Social Club may hail from, uh, well, Washington D.C., obviously, but their politicko punk-rock roots don't draw from the city's history of mighty-uptighty hardcore heroes. Instead, the combo seems t'have a real Anglo-punk love, their energetic dance-up-a-storm anthems born of a love of The Clash, The Buzzcocks, and New Model Army. Whilst this might make them seem like a bunch of jack-boot'd roughneck tough-nuts ready to gob in yr gob, that kinda misses the mark with what Washington Social Club are about. If I was pressed for any DC comparative with which to tie them to their city's recent musical history, I'd probably have to turn to... Velocity Girl. No, like, really. WSC's own label describes their hip-swiveling, groovy-times punk as "old-style indie," which assumedly means the band hark back to those times when indie-rock bands actually rocked. More than likely, it's a point made to establish the fact that they have absolutely no relationship nor association with that corporatized kiddie-punk machine that churns out bands who all sound like All, something backed up in the combo's touring-buddy associations with the likes of Hot Hot Heat and Ted Leo/The Pharmacists. Musically, Washington Social Club dare to step away from the crutch of distortion, building their tunes on the base of a rhythm section who push the beat into beat-combo territories, WSC knowing nothing if not that the rock is very much about the roll. Over this, frontman Martin Royle punctuates proceedings with his English-accented sneer, never more theatrically vintage-punk than on the band-getting-stoned-on-the-road anthem "Are You High?," where he, along with join-in-the-chorus boy/girl backing-vox, threatens the crowd — "Before we leave this town tonight/ Can I show you fuckheads something?" — whilst, simultaneously, trying to cop the band an invite to a party after the show. Most of the time, such combative frontman shenanigans go with the metronomic staccato guitar-chords typical of this type of gear, but Royle's playbook isn't just three-chords-and-a-cloud-of-dust. Going without fuzz, his strings are clean enough that, occasionally, their ringing clarity even evokes the tone of Roger McGuinn(!), the jangling pop-hooks of "Simple Sound" clocking in close to, uh, The La's. If that sounds confusing, wait 'til you get to "Backed to the Future," where Royle spins some capricious and convoluted tale about time-traveling. Or, then, to the functionally-titled "Dancing Song," a jumped-up cut in which the night's darkness, in anthropomorphic form, tells the combo that it can stop the day from coming if they'd just play it a Danzig record. And, with Washington Social Club's reigning aesthetic, you know the nighttime incarnate just must be referring back to when Glenn was but a teenager from Mars.


by Anthony Carew




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