Sing Sing Death House

Distillers

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 12, 2002)
• Original Release Date: June 6, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hellcat Records
• ASIN: B00005QW0A
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #57,647 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Bad Religion's Brett Gurewitz once called frontwoman Brody Armstrong's voice a "gravel truck with a broken axel," and his compliment isn't far from truth. The Australian native has a set of pipes on par with those of Joan Jett, Courtney Love (during Hole's Pretty on the Inside era), and Gits frontwoman Mia Zapata; she growls like a rabid dog and sings like she survives on whiskey and cigarettes. Her lyrical material is just as rough, as Armstrong uses her songs to relive a past riddled with problems--but in place of self-pity is an enormously forceful resolve to kick down whatever walls stand before her. Sing Sing Death House, the Distillers' second album, is an incredible storm of punk rock fury. Between Armstrong's guttural screams and the band's razor-sharp, hook-strapped tracks, there isn't a weak spot in all 12 songs. Although the band sometimes races into fierce hardcore snarls, most of the album consists of musically upbeat anthems, so even if the songs' issues are turbulent, there's a punk army optimism lining every dark cloud. For fans of intensely commanding female singers and solid, old-school punk rock, the Distillers provide an excellent album through and through. --Jennifer Maerz

Product Description

The second snarling album from mouth-foaming punk rock mad-dogs the Distillers. Twelve pop-bullshit-free tracks of glass-breaking, bottle-emptying, and odor-bearing anger, pain and chaos. No posers allowed. Digipak. Hellcat Records.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a punk band that truly embodies the punk movement, November 3, 2002

By	Erica Anderson (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I have been a big punk fan back when I was in high school in early nineties. I listened to Fugazi, The Rollins Band, Social Distortion, Blondie, The Clash, and The Ramones. Unfortunately as time went on, I grew disenchanted with punk's holier-than-thou attitude and I moved on to bigger and better things. Now I am disgusted to what is being passed off as "punk" like that ... from Dashboard Confessional, New Found Glory, and Blink-182. Back in the day, my favorite bands didn't cater to MTV and its fickle audience. Now look at what "punk" has become, another TRL staple. UGH! Thankfully I finally found a band that has all the raw energy and attitude of the bands that I love while having made a music video, and that band is The Distillers. I absolutely fell in love with their new song "City of Angels". It is catchy as heck yet the song manages to have this energy and raw, unpolished sound that I haven't heard in years. Brody Armstrong, the wife of Rancid's Tim Armstrong, had to have been listening to a lot of her husband's music as well as early Hole. Her raw, unpolished vocals reminds me a lot like Courtney Love before she cleaned up and sold out. "Sing Sing Death House" is a barely 30 minute collection of infectious yet fast music that would make The Clash and Rancid both proud. Garage music at its finest. After hearing "Sing Sing Death House", I may just have hope for a movement that has now been tainted with whiny brats and pop music with guitars.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh. My. Goodness., December 30, 2004

By	Prancibald of Saxterbury - See all my reviews

This is one of the few CDs I can listen to from track 1 to 12 without getting bored and changing the music; in fact, from the first 15 seconds of the first track ("Sick Of It All") I am hooked and therefore absolutely incapable of turning it off. This album ropes you in wholly and completely. It sends electric shocks through my body and makes me dance around my room like a big idiot and wish I could play the drums and scream as well as Brody can. An absolutely fantastic album, it's worth fifty times the price you pay.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh Lordy! What an awsome band!!!, December 15, 2002

By	"gcseevilqueen" (QC, Arizona) - See all my reviews

When it comes to singing your heart out, one voice comes to mind. It's not so feminine, but somehow utterly beautiful. Brody Armstrong, the lead singer of The Distillers is, in my opinion, THE most talented female vocalist right now; possibly of all time. The voice of a punk rock angel, as I refer to her; her brash, heartfelt lyrics will teach you lessons of life you never thought possible. She's been through a lot in her short life; at 22 she can tell you a lot about the world, and she uses her pure but harshly gorgeous voice to tell you. She is punk rock; its past, and seemingly, its future. I bought this album after hearing 'Young Crazed Peeling' and found out that every single track is just as great. Every song is backed with raw, genuine experiences and emotion. Each song is intense and even inspiring.' `I Am a Revenant', 'Sick of it all', 'I Understand', 'Lordy, Lordy' and of course 'Young Crazed Peeling' are some of my very most favorites. The intense hardcore lyrics and the deep sound penetrate your emotions and just really do something to you. The hit 'City of Angels' is also on this CD and is great track, full of wise lyrics and cathartic guitar riffs. When it comes to hardcore, the Distillers got it all. I also recommend their last self-titled debut album. In that CD Brody's vocals are accompanied by former band Distiller Rose. She backs Brody with more feminine hardcore screaming vocals. They harmonized great, but The Distillers prove with `Sing Sing Death House', that while Rose is missed, they can do just fine without her. All in all, this album rocks hard. If you like hardcore punk revival like Rancid, The Casualties, Lars and The Bastards, Agnostic Front, Blitz... Buy the Distillers album... own it, live it, breathe it.