Mad Daddy – The Road Racer EP

Mad Daddy are back with a follow-up E.P. to their rocking self-titled 2021 debut album. Mad Daddy hail from the Isle of Man. Which I have no idea where that is. This American only knows the geography of England and it’s only from whatever they show on the Premier League broadcasts. Mad Daddy sound like they come from an oil pan underneath an old car in Louisiana more than an island nation near Ireland. (I googled it).

Track 1 Road Racer starts out with a slide guitar that sounds like a 76 Chevy Nova being warmed up for a drag race. The vocals are sung out of a 1970’s Budweiser can found half buried in the mud in a forest. Just the way I like em. By the time singer, Dolyn Clucas-Morris, starts chanting Go Go Road Racer during the chorus, I’m already there with him driving too fast down that road in the Nova. This is pedal to to the metal rock n’ roll blues punk . GO ROAD RACER! Throw in some Gibson Les Paul solo madness to wind down that engine. Track 2 It Ain’t Easy is not a Guns N Roses cover, but whoever wrote this one def had a cig or joint hanging out their mouth like Slash. This song is so laid back cool, Steve McQueen winked at it. Quick spit vocals, check. Dirty harmonica solo recorded on the stoop of a wood shack, check.

Track 3 Be Bad Slows it down a bit. Dolyn gives us a much needed therapy session. And when the chorus kicks in with Be Bad, I really do wanna be bad. Can someone yell party anthem. I can see many a bier stein being raised to this track at Mad Daddy shows. Liam Callow throws down guitar solos that sound like a $3000 Gibson Les Paul played through a $75 boss distortion pedal turned to a fuzzy overdrive. It just doesn’t get any better than that! Track 4 Here to Stay starts out with bassist Elvis Palooka sounding like he’s rocking a Fender P Bass played through that Budweiser can again, only they added a 6 x 9 speaker to it now. The Bass really grooves in this one, doing some walks and swinging with the beat at parts. It almost sounds like Palooka is in a trance, like that thing where it’s like 2 a.m. and your like hallucinatory, but no, you’re gonna get it done girl! That combined with Matt Twist’s bombastic and bouncy drumming really drives the loose but tight sound Mad Daddy fuck with. This song is snotty AF: The Buzzcocks fronted by Elvis Presley doing a Johnny Rotten thing.

The Road Racer E.P. is seriously motivating party music the whole family will enjoy, and it’s the first exported product of the Isle of Man I ever experienced. The Road Racer logo created by Adam Berry would also make a great tattoo. Just sayin. In conclusion, this E.P. is definitely a progression for Mad Daddy as they dive deeper into their own oil pan. Hybrid cars need not apply. Ease up to the bar next to it on June 4th here