"Across two albums and a near-perfect singles collection in the early 2010s, Hunx and His Punx spritzed a campy perfume cloud in garage rock's musky basement. The California-based band crash-landed with catchy-as-fuck songs about eating makeup and hooking up with guys with shitty music taste, delivered over fuzzed-out guitar and stacked harmonies that tossed the Ramones and the Shangri-Las into a blender."
"Lead singer and guitarist Seth Bogart, vocalist and bassist Shannon Shaw, and drummer Erin Emslie's candy-colored, John Waters-inspired rock'n'roll fantasia relished in vulgarity but had a bleeding heart, even as they indulged in art-punk antics onstage (see: sky-high wigs, elaborate stage design, or Bogart drinking from water bottles filled with his own piss between songs). On comeback album Walk Out on This World, their first outing since going on hiatus in 2013, Hunx and His Punx mature in their own way."
"Despite the occasionally serious subject matter, Walk Out on This World's themes still arrive tucked into jubilant, hard-nosed punk. A kick drum knocks like a heartbeat on "Rainy Day in LA," where Shaw delivers a sorrowful treatise. "Since you went away I had to warm up the thoughts in my mind/Since you went away I had to thaw out my frozen insides," she sings, until the weight of the sentiment gives way beneath her."
Hunx and His Punx built a campy, candy-colored brand of garage rock mixing Ramones urgency with Shangri-Las harmonies, provocative stage antics, and vulgar humor. Seth Bogart, Shannon Shaw, and Erin Emslie combined fuzzed-out guitar, stacked harmonies, and theatrical presentation. Walk Out on This World marks a comeback after a 2013 hiatus and channels personal losses and environmental calamity into jangling, heartache-driven garage rock. The record balances brawny guitar riffs with rousing lyrics and near-equal lead vocals from Bogart and Shaw. Songs retain jubilant punk energy while addressing grief, disillusionment, and planetary anxiety.
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