Bon Vivants – Soul Action 10"

Bon Vivants – Soul Action 10"

Eight tracks of unbridled enthusiasm from four oddball legends of the ATL underground. Ben Young, co-owner of Old Gold Records and former songwriter of Forever and The Bad Poet, hits a new level of non-ironic pop glee with heavy influences from Symbolist poets like Mallarme in addition to the usual Surrealist vibes of Eluard and Char. The range is higher too, over the top even, to keep up with the runaway-train drumming of Tim Genius (also of The Loud Pissers and The Preakness) and lightning-like guitar solos of Rob Parham (formerly of William Carlos Williams and Bunnieslope). Ben Lawless (King Congregation/Eastern Development) provides a heavy dose of counter-melody on bass and guitar as well as a glistening sheen of psychedelic, noisy production to hold the whole thing together with the most intoxicating of airplane glue. It all somehow works to challenge the whole classic/punk rock idiom, subverted and detourned to create something wholly different altogether and, ideally, more refreshing than the usual stereo rehash. It takes a bit of blind faith and daring to be sure, but the steadfast shall be rewarded with this loaded and imploded disc of sonic pleasure. Presented in marvelous black and white, 45 rpm 10-inch limited vinyl heaviness. Packaged with xeroxable and frameable OpPop collage.