The Routes - 60's garage punk, surf, rock'n'roll band from Japan

• Posted by Rock Rockets April 13, 2011 - 617 views

  

  Dear Garage freaks,

   

  The Routes is a 60's garage punk, surf, rock'n'roll band from Japan.

   

  This great band produce toe-stomping 'freaked-out 100 mph fuzz-bucket guitar garage rock'n'roll'

  Alligator is The Routes' second album on their own after Left My Mind in 2007, appearances on Japanese compilations like Wild Sazanami Beat Vol 5 in 2010. Chris Jack also played guitar on Rock'n'Roll Monkey and Robots' LP Back To Beatsville in 2009. A first single from Alligator was released last year by Dirty Water Records :

  Do What's Right By You is a big crunchy blues punk stomp that got the old garage-rock fans as well as indie kids new to real rock’n’roll foaming at the mouth, as their DWR press release says ;)

  Check out their video on DWR's YouTube :

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVLUIHDZYc

  The Routes are

  Shinichi Nakayama : drums & backing vox,

  Kakizoe (Bancho) : plays bass,

  Chris Jack : guitar/vocals/organ.

  Alligator is an 11-piece 100 % garage gem you will be listening for a while ! It will be out in May @ Dirty Water Records and if you buy now, you will get a nice pre-release discount !

  http://dirtywaterrecords.co.uk/shop/product

  The Routes are touring Europe in April :

  15^th : Lounge Club, Lisboa, Portugal

  16^th : Armazen Do Cha, Porto, Protugal

  18^th : Sala Super 8, Ferrol, Spain

  19^th : Rock Beer The New, Santander, Spain

  20^th : Les Combustibles, Paris, France

  21rst : The Prince Albert, Brighton, UK

  22^nd : Mothers Ruin, Bristol, UK

  23^rd : Le Beat Bespoke @ 299 Venue, London, UK

   

  One of the major discoveries of the quarter, at least.

  @+/Bye (listening to The Routes - Brick Wall, track n° 10 from Alligator)

  Guillaume / Rockandrockets

   

  PS : Buy music or bye-bye music