Album Review: The Cherry Dolls - Viva Los Dolls

Melbourne rock dudes The Cherry Dolls know their way around some nifty riffs.

Their debut Viva Los Dolls is absolutely riddled with driving guitar lines, attitude and plenty of pants-first swagger. Opener Cop Out dishes up some '70s sass amid a simple but upbeat kit-work, seemingly setting the bar for the rest of the album. There are definitely some highlights that follow in similar vein - Slave, Hollywood, Love - and there are tracks that change things up a bit pace-wise - Kimchi, Let You Down, Begging You Please - enough to lacquer over the repetitiveness of the in-betweeners.