Album Review: Deez Nuts - You Got Me Fucked Up

It's hard to believe this band has been around for more than a decade and that this is their sixth album; You Got Me Fucked Up finds the classic Australian crew in exuberant form.

Don’t expect any kind of progression or evolution from this album, that’s just not what this band is about. Still channelling the likes of Suicidal Tendencies and early Anthrax, Deez Nuts pump out the phat grooves, brutish hardcore guitars, rapped-up vocals and singalong choruses with the same gnarly flair as ever, while putting their own, typically Aussie, slant on the style. The production has been kept deliberately raw, by today’s uber-polished standards anyway, to help keep the punk/hardcore cred intact, and the whole thing flashes by in under 30 minutes. Done and dusted.

Yep, this album is here for a good time, not a long time. 

The songs seem designed to be played live; they are lean, mean, straight to the point and chock-full of electric energy. You can feel the bounce of the crowd and taste the sweat as you listen. If there is a key track among the very consistent ten on offer here, it would be the slammin’, jammin’ title track.

This album is unlikely to win a huge number of new fans for the band, however, it will keep their legion of existing fanatics very happy indeed.