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The Total Rejection – The Time Travellers 3rd Will and Testament

Prolific Bristol-based garage-punk, psyche-popsters The Total Rejection return with their latest long-player set for release on June 30. Musical inspiration and influences are unashamedly drawn, lifted and liberated from innovative, often underground, acts of the mid-late 60s from both sides of the Atlantic. The Time Travellers 3rd Will and Testament not only continues from where their previous offering concluded, it sees The Total Rejection continue on their upward trajectory. Combining crushing power chords, with wah-wah and tremolo effects abounding, slamming bass riffs, swirling psyche and sleazy garage punk Hammond organ, driven by pummelling, unrelenting, primal drum beats, they deliver a gloriously lo-fi 15 tracks with bags of alt-pop appeal. Topped off with sometimes gruff, sometimes sneering vocals, to produce a cacophony of real music. If polished, overproduced, bland studio-created ‘music’ is your thing, The Total Rejection are not for you. Conversely, if you prefer your music to have balls, and instead of overdone, your palate prefers it raw