Diesel Park West Flipped CDP 7949732

Q Magazine review by Paul Davies - November, 1990

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Having waited almost a decade for their first slice of major league action with

last years critically drooled-over debut, the Diesel's should be more familiar than

most with the long march of rock's historical process, and this mid-priced collection of

B-sides, covers and outtakes litters a breadcrumb-visible trail back to their primary

sourcesof inspiration - a sparkling '60s amalgum of pop, West Coast rock,

RYTHMANDBLUES and psychedelia. Aside from the charging melodic rock shapes

of the self penned Above These Things and King Fluid, it is the splendid range of off-beat

and unexpected cover versions which linger longer in the memory. The best of this bunch

include the spacey paisley-patterned soul of Young Rascals' Find Somebody, a jagged

driving version of Buffalo Springfield's Mr. Soul, and a gloriously ragged-arsed electric

blues treatment of Memo From Turner, a Jagger/Richards/Cooder composition lifted

from the soundtrack to Performance. Topping all these though is the cover of the

buzzing sonic boom of Jesus Jones' Info Freako-slowed-up and stripped down to a

raw barbed-wire electric groove.

*** (Three star rating)

Diesel Park West

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