Debut full-length by Dublin, Ireland's manic garage/punk quintet The Urges. Recorded in the all analogue studio of Circo Perrotti in Gijon, Spain with Jorge Explosion on production duties (Billy Childish, The Cynics), Psych Ward (Off The Hip 2007) is a savage energy filled ode to the earliest days of punk. Paying homage to underground heroes of the 60's like the Seeds, Q'65, and 13th floor Elevators, and following in the footsteps of latter day madmen like, "Wild" Billy Childish, The Chesterfield Kings and The Cynics, The Urges deliver 11 cuts of pure garage trash! Jim Walters vocal delivery and lyrics are powerful, moody and venomous. Glen Lee Flynn puts down some killer fuzz soaked guitar licks which, when paired with Gary Clarke's organ grinding, might just induce a freakin' aneurism (dig the brilliant instro-mental "Salvaje").
