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Joyce Hotel is the smashing debut from Portland, Oregon?s Crack City Rockers, a band that steeps itself in the greatest sounds of the early punk explosion. Co-produced and engineered by Larry Crane (Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, The Go-Betweens) at Portland's Jackpot Studios, it inhales deeply from the music of bands like the New York Dolls, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the Saints, Patti Smith Group, Television, and early Rolling Stones and exhales the sound of the great lost album of '78 with the vision of a post apocalyptic Raymond Carver. An electric exciting album, energetic and smart enough to appeal to the younger generation, but with enough of a sense of musical history to convince anyone over thirty that the second coming is at hand. On Joyce Hotel, the rock n? roll flame isn?t just carried on, it explodes super nova. A lethal combination on tightly interlocked guitars, a powerful rhythm section and Eric Gregory?s driving vocals which matches the soulful firepower of the musicians note for note. Even on the relatively subdued numbers (such as the blues workout "yr rotten luck"), the band sounds like they're locked in tight and cooking with gas, while the full-blown rockers are as gloriously thunderous as anything ever committed to tape. Crack City Rockers? Joyce Hotel takes you on a journey through the heart of the city. The beauty and pain of the night life where desire is indulged, vice and sin go hand in hand with the hope for redemption. It?s Joseph Conrad channeled through the libido of Prince and the fury of the MC5. Here is an album that taps into the adrenaline rush of one?s first reckless joyride. This is the album you crave as the anthem for your night out.