James Ferraro has a new album out via New York’s Olde English Spelling Bee label.
Night Dolls With Hairspray finds the maddeningly prolific American artist going deeper into his hypnagogic fetish for power-pop, bubblegum punk and degraded MTV culture, and it’s certainly a punchier if more erratic offering than his last OESB release, the gloriously expansive Last American Hero. Fans of Ariel Pink and Ducktails ought to take note as ever.
We’ll let OESB describe the drift of the record as only they know how:
the one and only blue haired new wave freakazoid from planet shock tart,the Glaminator himself Jimmy Ferraro of the legendary “The Blow Up Dolls of 143rd St.” comes now with his first solo fully produced juke box hit smasher!! guaranteed to run shivvers up the spines of all the lipstick and studded weirdos and queer night glammer’s with big hairsprayed hairdos out there. this one is for all the blow dryer dreamers somewhere out there singing in the mirror of their shampoo perfumed bathrooms beckoning a mysterious moon lit love.for the leather punkster muffins with green tongues and pockets filled with cheez whiz on the subway,where a world just outside the subway window leads to the back alleys of 143rd st. where the garbage pail kids from hell in metal bras all dolled up in New York Cities finest 99cent store eye shadow, blush and glitter sing the soundtrack to the seedy nether worlds of the teenage fantasy machine…Leather High School!! which is Saved By The Bell meets Marquis De Sade in it’s principle or shall we say in it’s male Principal who is a masochistic cross dresser underneath that pretty little socially acceptable mask of his.
tune into the sound that all the lunatic love puppets are craving, the magical pop radiance that outshines their topiary styled hairdos and made them into hopelessly romantic cheetah spotted glam dolls from the underground. armed with their glammy sound that is much like the soundtrack spilling out of a 1970’s Time square erotic/b-movie theater, they parade the night streets as TERROR THIRSTY GLAMzoids wishing upon their neon pop shooting stars, terrorizing New York City with their studs,high heels and air guitars,THIS IS THE RECORD THAT MADE THEM DO IT!!
so if you wanna sing along in a friday night’s bubble bath or stalk the midnight streets dressed as a baroque pervo in make up pick this one up, for Night Doll’s With Hairspray has it all!!!!!!!”
If that doesn’t have you checking out this preview clip, we don’t really know what will:
Night Dolls With Hairspray is available to order now on vinyl LP (including download coupon) direct from OESB here.
Tracklist:
1. Dollhouse
2. Runaway
3. Brittney’s Gum
4. Leather High School
5. Buffy Honkerburg’s Answering Machine
6. Lipstick On Ants
7. Killer Nerd
8. Roaches Watch TV
9. Roses And Mystery
10. Movie Monster (Night Dolls With Hairspray)
11. Radio Cherubs