The reviews have been rolling in for the
Pillocks new CD "Perfectly Flawed"...
Pillocks new CD "Perfectly Flawed"...
Vancouver, BC Canada
February 20, 2006
The Marine Club
Vancouver BC, Canada
The Marine Club
Vancouver BC, Canada
Vancouver, BC Canada
June 16, 2006
The Anza Club
Vancouver BC, Canada
The Anza Club
Vancouver BC, Canada
Vancouver, BC Canada
September 15, 2006
The Media Club
Vancouver BC, Canada
The Media Club
Vancouver BC, Canada
Port Moody, BC
March 10, 2007
"Very Strong"...
"I listened to "Judas Cow." Excellent song!
A song that makes me dance while infuriating me and making me
sick to my stomach. Great job mixing motion and emotion.
Very strong".
- Beverly Durfee, The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction, CO USA
A song that makes me dance while infuriating me and making me
sick to my stomach. Great job mixing motion and emotion.
Very strong".
- Beverly Durfee, The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction, CO USA
"KIcks Ass..."
"The Pillocks CD, "Perfectly Flawed" quite frankly KICKS ASS! ...It's a
great Band...I hope you sell a Billion copies...
Can't wait for your next one..."
- D. Leckie
great Band...I hope you sell a Billion copies...
Can't wait for your next one..."
- D. Leckie
Reviews
"Good Album..."
This is a plain rock n' roll album summed up (or bookended) by it's
two covers: Arlo Guthrie's 'Coming Into Los Angeles'
and the Dead Boys 'Sonic Reducer'. Arlo is roughed up and Dead
Boys are smoothed. The originals meet in the middle."
- Tom Harrison, The Province
Vancouver, BC
two covers: Arlo Guthrie's 'Coming Into Los Angeles'
and the Dead Boys 'Sonic Reducer'. Arlo is roughed up and Dead
Boys are smoothed. The originals meet in the middle."
- Tom Harrison, The Province
Vancouver, BC
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Paying tribute to their 60's heroes such as the Kinks, as well as late-70's punk
pioneers such as the Clash and the Dead Boys, The Pillocks create something that
sounds surprisingly similar in parts to Pearl Jam's latest album sans Eddie Vedder's
trademark delivery, and that's not a bad thing by a long shot. Just listen to the
punked-out opener and title track "Perfectly Flawed" and PJ's "Life Wasted" back to
back to see the similarities.
Primary songwriter and rhythm guitarist Steve Ward crafts everyman garage rock
straight from the Replacements' School of Second Generation American Punk
without the Master's in alcoholism. His songs are fleshed out by sympathetic
bandmates who play very tightly and professionally for a supposed garage band.
The slickness is due in part to the solid rhythm section, consisting of Achim Kaptiza
and drummer Greg Williams, who drive the songs forward with powerful grooves…
The guitars are tightly controlled riff machines, sticking together and shooting out
deceptively simple chord progressions through the rising and falling of the verses
and choruses. That is, until lead guitarist Mike Hicks eventually pulls away to play
melodic guitar lines to complement the rhythm guitar or just explode from the
speakers channeling Dave Davies with ripping solos in the songs "You Decide" or
Coming to Los Angeles" that leave the listener's ears begging for mercy. At the
forefront is vocalist Peter de Verteuil, whose singing style has just a hint of punk's
nasality with enough raspy, mush-mouthed grit in the vein of Paul Westerburg and
Joe Strummer to give his delivery a more impassioned maturity than your average
pop-punk whiner…de Verteuil has a true rock n' roll voice: a limited range, a lip-
curling growl, a wicked tongue and a heart full of soul.
Perfectly Flawed is just under 50 minutes of 16 hard-grooving rock tunes that are
rarely longer than three and a half minutes, never having time to get boring and
leaving the listener craving more at the end every time. The strict song lengths
never give the Pillocks a chance to indulge, so there is always the right number of
verses, solos that are just long enough and choruses that hit at the perfect moment.
With it's slowhand solos and reggae-by-way-of-the-Police verses, "Too Many
People Want Peace" slips between harrowing and laid-back as easily as Scott
Weiland slips out of his leather pants after a Velvet Revolver show. Besides
reggae, the Pillocks try to infuse their songs with other genres, such as "Eight Ball"
which sounds like an update on the surf rock that was popular in the early '60's with
it's groovy guitar riffs and melodic leads over a solid backbeat. It sounds more laid
back than Dick Dale but infinitely more rockin' than the Beach Boys. "Judas Cow" is
one of the moments on the album where the band tries to get profound, and
surprisingly they don't fall flat on their faces where a lot of local bands would. A
piece of protest rock, the song is a slow burning, verbose rocker with anti-war/anti-
Bush lyrics as blunt as Neil Young's Living With War, even featuring Bush sound-
bytes on "Judas Cow" a la "Let's Impeach the President". The quotes seem to flow
with the song so brilliantly, it is as though Bush joined the group in the studio for a
jam to lay down some neo-con scatting.
…the Pillocks have compiled a consistently good collection…fast becoming one of
the Lower Mainland's best kept secrets.
- Brent Mattson, Page Friday -
,
pioneers such as the Clash and the Dead Boys, The Pillocks create something that
sounds surprisingly similar in parts to Pearl Jam's latest album sans Eddie Vedder's
trademark delivery, and that's not a bad thing by a long shot. Just listen to the
punked-out opener and title track "Perfectly Flawed" and PJ's "Life Wasted" back to
back to see the similarities.
Primary songwriter and rhythm guitarist Steve Ward crafts everyman garage rock
straight from the Replacements' School of Second Generation American Punk
without the Master's in alcoholism. His songs are fleshed out by sympathetic
bandmates who play very tightly and professionally for a supposed garage band.
The slickness is due in part to the solid rhythm section, consisting of Achim Kaptiza
and drummer Greg Williams, who drive the songs forward with powerful grooves…
The guitars are tightly controlled riff machines, sticking together and shooting out
deceptively simple chord progressions through the rising and falling of the verses
and choruses. That is, until lead guitarist Mike Hicks eventually pulls away to play
melodic guitar lines to complement the rhythm guitar or just explode from the
speakers channeling Dave Davies with ripping solos in the songs "You Decide" or
Coming to Los Angeles" that leave the listener's ears begging for mercy. At the
forefront is vocalist Peter de Verteuil, whose singing style has just a hint of punk's
nasality with enough raspy, mush-mouthed grit in the vein of Paul Westerburg and
Joe Strummer to give his delivery a more impassioned maturity than your average
pop-punk whiner…de Verteuil has a true rock n' roll voice: a limited range, a lip-
curling growl, a wicked tongue and a heart full of soul.
Perfectly Flawed is just under 50 minutes of 16 hard-grooving rock tunes that are
rarely longer than three and a half minutes, never having time to get boring and
leaving the listener craving more at the end every time. The strict song lengths
never give the Pillocks a chance to indulge, so there is always the right number of
verses, solos that are just long enough and choruses that hit at the perfect moment.
With it's slowhand solos and reggae-by-way-of-the-Police verses, "Too Many
People Want Peace" slips between harrowing and laid-back as easily as Scott
Weiland slips out of his leather pants after a Velvet Revolver show. Besides
reggae, the Pillocks try to infuse their songs with other genres, such as "Eight Ball"
which sounds like an update on the surf rock that was popular in the early '60's with
it's groovy guitar riffs and melodic leads over a solid backbeat. It sounds more laid
back than Dick Dale but infinitely more rockin' than the Beach Boys. "Judas Cow" is
one of the moments on the album where the band tries to get profound, and
surprisingly they don't fall flat on their faces where a lot of local bands would. A
piece of protest rock, the song is a slow burning, verbose rocker with anti-war/anti-
Bush lyrics as blunt as Neil Young's Living With War, even featuring Bush sound-
bytes on "Judas Cow" a la "Let's Impeach the President". The quotes seem to flow
with the song so brilliantly, it is as though Bush joined the group in the studio for a
jam to lay down some neo-con scatting.
…the Pillocks have compiled a consistently good collection…fast becoming one of
the Lower Mainland's best kept secrets.
- Brent Mattson, Page Friday -
,
"Pillocks Hearken back to Golden Days of Garage Rock"
Vancouver, BC Canada
November 21, 2009
The Anza Club
Vancouver BC, Canada
The Anza Club
Vancouver BC, Canada