Rip It!

PowerSolo have spent the last three decades donkey kicking holes through the walls of good taste and building their own crooked kingdom from the rubble, and "Rip It!" might be their most gloriously deranged collection yet. Alongside new guitarist and co-conspirator Charlie Shapiro (aka Jew Curly), frontman Kim Kix dives headfirst into Curly's basement to create a record fuelled by a mutual obsession with the forgotten corners of music history and the Garage Future-the kind of strange, dust-covered compilation LPs packed with novelty songs, regional oddities, accidental genius and beautiful musical mistakes. Every track on "Rip It!" inhabits its own crooked theme. Pills, Naked Police, Slippers, one exceptionally Bad Bad Man, a Plastic Maniac, a 14-year-old desert explorer named Habibi Bob-it's as if a stack of longed-for but forgotten novelty records, comic books, fever dreams, late-night television broadcasts, and cycling highlight reels were thrown into a sack, shaken, kicked