The list gets forever longer with the late eighties one and they’re gone bands. Sea Hags were another band that were hyped up, especially if you read Sounds and Kerrang magazines. I think journalists were just looking for the next big rock band to break and sometimes went overboard with their praise.
If you are a lover of the biker/sleaze grooves that were coming out of Southern California then you may have already invested in the delights of the Sea Hags. Most of the tracks have that stripped back, rock n’ roll, boogie groove thing going down. My highlights are Side 1 close out tune Back To The Grind which has slightly more going on than the rest of album. It has a variant to the stick boogie, a great guitar sound, and Ron Yocum doing his best Alice Cooper impression. My favourite track is Bunkbed Creek. An unusual tune for a band like this as it’s an instrumental. It’s not the type of instrumental that has full on wailing guitars either, but a brooding slowed down groover.
I’m not sure any of the members did a whole lot after this as they just disappeared. Not a bad album, but you can see why there was not a follow up.
7/10 from The Grooveman.
