Right Now!

Pussy Galore’s early EPs aimed to offend and piss off the NYC music scene, and they were so successful at it that by the time their first full-length came out, they had few defenders. Heard out of its late ’80s context, Right Now! reveals them as sharp, self-aware, and unexpectedly skilled musicians. “Alright” delivers headbanging punk energy; “Wretch” is head-warping psychedelic sludge; “New Breed” and “Pig Sweat” are face-slashing rockabilly noise-punk. Their decision to eschew bass and use a car’s gas tank as a snare drum gives the music a biting-on-tinfoil edge. The apparent half-assedness is entirely put on; Pussy Galore knew exactly what they were doing at all times.