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Sonic Boombastic Rockabilly

Paul Davies | Folkestone, Kent United Kingdom | 09/22/2000

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Westworld were a British band who played a strange combination of rockabilly & punk pop music, with a guitarist from Generation X and a spunky female singer. All the tracks live up to the 3 minute punk single ethic; short and sweet with catchy tunes and a singalong chorus. The biggest British hit on the album is `Sonic Boom Boy', which still has me pogoing around the kitchen and playing the air guitar! The rockabilly guitars drive nearly every track and each one could easily have been a single; the tunes are instantly recognisable and you'll swear you'd known them forever. Tracks like the singles, `Where The Action Is' and `Joy Rider' are excellent in a sing-a-long kind of way, but where Westworld really shine is on the ballad `Silver Mac' where the singing is so heartfelt you feel the vocalist is going to cry. It now sounds all very eighties but it is great fun anyway!"