The Margaret Hooligans ‘Turntable Tribulations’
Characterized by brainwashingly addictive guitar riff, noised-coiled distortion, and big personality, The Margaret Hooligans unleash a rocker inventive album Turntable Tribulations. The record features nine tracks, taking rock n roll to a liberating dance of primitivism and psychedelic. Turntable Tribulations break all rule and boundary and sees celebration and hospitality in the most authentic form, inviting listeners to a stadium-filling, fully engaging experience.
The songs are written and recorded in a spontaneously inventive way that it captures the most organic call and response between musicians, instruments and instruments. From the very first track, “Oh Lord, Hit It,” they evoke a very physical reaction in listeners, where they want to join in and dance to the wild beats and bob their heads along the way. The music itself paints a carnival, where everyone can forget about who they supposed to be and just be who they want in the moment.
It’s also clear from this very first track that The Margaret Hooligans are abandoning all rules. One man one verse? That’s too boring for them. They’d rather expand and pass along the sonic between each other. Non-linear expression within an unconventional song form produces a very otherworldly experience that stretch beyond the existing dimension and space into somewhere totally unexpected. An euphoric glow of psychedelia is what sometimes a climax feels like.
The Margaret Hooligans’ music is very provocative. It’s hard to sit through a track and not engage it in a way. Their authentically organic sound is a smash of everything at hand. “Pete and Roger” definitely feels like a play between audience and musicians. The call demands a shouting response, the lit energy demands a rocker’s sign in the air. Hearing the spontaneity and joy being expressed that way is truly spirit lifting. Songs like that make you think would be pretty mad to watch them live.
Crossing the genres of rock and world, they march into something that’s completely their own, but it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. Freedom, love, and passion becomes a beautiful experimentation in Turntable Tribulations.
“Bippity Boppity” opens with a madly fast jazz percussion with rocker aesthetic. It
“Bippity Boppity” opens with a speedy jazz percussion within rock n roll aesthetic, restless, eclectic. A spoke-sung vocal blends into the rhythmic madness brings out a bit of rap and funk to the style. The Margaret Hooligans also seem to bring a fresh perspective in the way instruments pair with each other. Nothing is really random, but they achieve a level of creative freedom to do that so organically and effortlessly, which takes time and effort to creating an experience like this.
“Feedback” is one of their previously released single about commentary and opinions. With that foot stomping and energetic straightforward punk rhythm, the track takes off like a plane and flies higher and higher. “I’ve Got Something To Say” sets its scene in a distorted moodiness. A lot of percussion feels very handmade, like what tribal musicians use in rituals and ceremonies.
