EP Review: Dead Dirty Dinosaurs: Too Many Questions: The Abbey Road Masters (Remastered)

Brisbane’s Dead Dirty Dinosaurs clearly like to be factual in their titles, their latest release, the lengthily but precisely named “Too Many Questions: The Abbey Road Masters (Remastered)“, which from this point forward I’m abridging to “Too Many Questions“, was released earlier this month via Riot Records. The big, and somewhat obvious, question is what do a band called Dead Dirty Dinosaurs sound like? they have chosen a band name that would be at home in any pretty much alternative scene from prog to indie to punk. The answer is that the “Too Many Questions” EP is an amalgamation of almost everything everyone was expecting, pretty much all of it, blended into one. Punk, indie, noise rock, blues, garage rock, post rock and post punk are all churned together to create something memorable and infectious.

The first taste is the primitive dirty alt blues of ‘Holding Back‘, the EP swiftly switches gears as this makes way for the discordant primitive garage rocker ‘Revenge‘. The punky shoegaze of ‘Bad Timing‘ takes things into more upbeat territory and, all too quickly, things come to a close with the heavier grungier sound of the EP’s superb lead single ‘Monica‘. Dead Dirty Dinosaurs channel the same blues and desert rock tendencies of bands like the Glass Phantoms and Queens Of The Stone Age and blend it with the attitude and swagger of the very best of 90’s noise rock, alt rock and indie. Maybe one day Dead Dirty Dinosaurs will achieve their goal of supporting the Pixies in Brisbane, they should as they really were made for that gig, but on the basis of the “Too Many Questions” EP Dead Dirty Dinosaurs could play with pretty much anyone worth seeing and they would go down a storm.

The “Too Many Questions” EP can be streamed and purchased here