THE ELECTRIC MESS have been known for their frantic 60’s Garagepunk through their dynamic live-shows and previous albums “The Electric Mess” and “Falling Off The Face Of The Earth” on Groovie Records for a while now and built up an incredible reputation. This band from New York proves an immense amount of power and combines a lot of different influences like 60’s Garage, dirty Punkrock, Pop, Psych and the 80’s Garagerevival-sound perfectly, adding the strong, punky vocals of tough frontwoman Esther Crow and thereby creating a unique and captivating sound. Compared to its predecessors their brandnew LP “House on Fire” puts a bit more focus on the 60’s Garage sound with a more dominant organ-sound and thereby fits right in the Soundflat Records-catalogue. This LP consists of wild, fast Garagerock and with “Better To Be Lucky Than Good” it already starts off with a cool, catchy track that has a tremendous energy. But it doesn’t stop to be as great; the song “House On Fire” features a strong organ, a crazy guitar and dirty-sounding vocals by this energetic singer; „She’s Got Something To Say“ is an incredible hit with a fantastic 60’s Garage-sound that you’ll find yourself singing along to instantly. ELECTRIC MESS have a very versatile sound, so this album certainly doesn’t get boring: the vocals range from being very rough and punky in “Lemonade Man” to softer sounding pop-influence in “Winding Stairs” ; “There’s Nothing You Can Do” is a male/female duet that is more 80’s influenced whereas “Every Girl Deserves A Song” has a strong psychedelic influence. If you like tough and powerful 60’s Garagerock with a Punk-influence (such as for example „Ray Daytona & the Googoobombos”), you’ll love THE ELECTRIC MESS and their mindblowing new album “House On Fire”!