Beebs And Her Money Makers: Würst Album Ever

Artist: Beebs And Her Money Makers
Title: Würst Album Ever
Format Reviewed: MP3
Format Released: 27th May 2014
Reviewed By: Millie Manders

This isn't the Würst album ever… It’s bloody genius! Do you like Ska? Doo-Wop? Jazz? Soul? Funk? Punk? Rockabilly?.... Well then, you're going to love this.

It's a meaty broth with all the spices and vegetable variations of veritable goodness a musical masterpiece can take.

There is a serious lack of female vocalists in rock'n'roll. Often I believe it's because so many female vocalists opt to sound like Miley Cyrus or Rihanna: warbling pop princesses cavorting round in their underwear. That just ain't gonna work when the audience is filled with ferocious girls and rabid boys looking for war wounds in a skank pit of glory.

Beebs is bringing back the strong woman with a strong voice to the genre. She has it all: soul, grit, strength.

It's easy to see why she's currently kicking up a storm on the Warped Tour, but this is so versatile it could be placed with either Red Hot Chili Peppers or Anastasia  just as much as Goldfinger and the rest: so funky it hurts! Personally, I may have to start a petition to get her to Blighty. This is one show I need to see.

Würst Album Ever opens with an all out skankthem with Out The Door. It's playful, soulful and full of bright brass.  The drums snap and the guitars have ping.  I'm in love with Beeb's voice on this track. It's smooth and throaty with a touch of growl in all the right places. Sexy as hell.

Track three moves straight into funk rock with Running Away. The brass in each track keeps the album firmly in ska but as the listener I'm finding myself on a journey through a story of genres. The sax solos are beyond beautiful: elliptical sassiness forming jazz perfection ear worms. Heaven.

This genre bending beatific beauty is coined throughout the album. Move out the way Reel Big Fish… I may have found a replacement for my ska addiction… (I haven't, but I have discovered something just as good here).

I could probably tell you track by track how good this album is coming up with ever more wonderful imagery to describe the amazing musicality but I fear you may get bored and miss the point. The point is this: if you don't get this album and you're a fan of any or all of the genres mentioned, you're an idiot, recently deaf, or both.

The last track I'll talk about is Miss Kaptain Kangaroo… It actually has a nod to Hair Metal with the guitars and breaks. Just as tongue in cheek, but with those beautiful soul vocals dripping all over it and amazing instrumentation giving it a backbone to die for. 

I implore you people… Make Beebs And Her Money Makers' Würst Album Ever your next musical purchase. DO IT.