Artist: The Bingers

Artist: The Bingers

Links: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bingers/219724941387230

http://thebingers1.bandcamp.com/album/rhymes-w-fingers

With their most recent EP, Rhymes w/ Fingers, the Bingers throw the dead and undead corpses of Buddy Holly and Dick Dale into a blender, add equal parts distortion and reverb, and the whole of Chicago gets to slurp up a mind-altering concoction.

Lineal descendents of the Pixies, the Bingers are the close familial relation of surf noise rockers Wavves; and it's got me to thinking, maybe you can surf Lake Michigan. EP-opener, "In a Thought," recalls the lo-fi psychedelic noise of indie stalwart Ariel Pink. The track "I'm Rich" has us smitten with a 1950's two-straws-in-a-milkshake muse; and on both tracks, the Bingers scratch the same itch that surf noise purveyors the Raveonettes do. The three-track EP closes with "The Flying Shitshow Fuckfest Blues," and it lives up to its name. It's garage rock at its finest.

In short, not since the Bingers' Land Lobster EP have we been able to find that storied garage that opens directly onto the beach. But now that we have, let's burn our hippie uncle's woodie, 'cause we're gonna need it for fuel... the Bingers' mind-fuck beach bonfire is raging all night long.

*** The author of this review, Christopher Anderson, plays the agida for the following band: http://youtu.be/tMS73-1kCr8