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Hi-Dramatic | Thrift

Straight across the USA in a '56 Cadillac.
CD, EarGear/Konkurrent

Tekst: Martÿn ter Haar

Publicatiedatum: 12 maart 2001

Hi-Dramatic from Amsterdam do themselves a bad favour calling their new album 'Thrift'. OK, their music might not be new, but the 13 tracks here are "vintage, mint-condition" collector's items, not thrift-store stuff. 'Thrift' takes you on a tour of America as it should be. Rockabilly, surf, country, jazz, swing: All of these elements are incorporated. 'Caffeine' sets new standards for US coffee. 'Superstrada' invents spaghetti western surf. 'Fever That Seems Right' is a crooner most bands wouldn't even dare to try to record. Hi-Dramatic succeed, although you can hear singer Bastiaan has to work really hard. And the tour of course ends in Memphis, Tennessee, to pay tribute to the King himself with 'It Hurts That Heart', a song that sounds so Sun-era Elvis that, before I read the credits, I thought it was a cover.