I've gotten a chance to preview Evil Nine's newest EP, The Power, due to release from Marine Parade Records on June 22. It's been pirated quite a bit prior to its official release, and for good reason. At first hearing, it sounds like They Live! Part Deux but after giving all three tracks a run-through, it's just as refreshing as it is nostalgic. The first track, "The Power," is, as Evil Nine describes it themselves, "like running amok with a chainsaw at an '80s night," whereupon you feel the aforementioned connection to their latest zombie-themed album. At this track, however, the theme digresses from flesh-eating mutants to a similarly horrifying yet distinct subject - the Eighties themselves. "The Night" feels as though it was ripped from the soundtrack of Miami Vice, and if I didn't know better I would have sworn I'd heard "The Heat" in a rerun of The A-Team on Hulu. Or maybe it's the other way around. I wasn't around until the very end of that decade anyway.
All three tracks aren't quite what I'd call danceable - but they're damned good to drive to, especially if you happen to be sitting in a Ferrari Testarossa. Or Van, I suppose. They are all definitely electric tracks that may cause you to don off-colored suits, gold chains, and start shifting your eyes suspiciously as you get up and do... something. These songs are just as high-energy as an 8-ball of white Columbian.
But make no mistake about my sarcasm; these songs KICK ASS. Evil Nine's description of these tracks on the Marine Parade site are dead-on too. For those of you who liked They Live! but wanted just a little bit more, here's an your answer to your prayers. If you didn't like They Live! very much, I doubt it will change your opinion much, but give it a shot anyway.
And if you were born after December 31, 1989, just turn on TV Land. You probably didn't get half of this review anyway.
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