The Wyld Gooms – “You Did Me Wrong” / “Doesn’t Matter To Me” (Outro Records 029) January 2022
The Wyld Gooms: You Did Me Wrong | I finally obtained a copy of the first single by the latest garage punk hoodlums on the impressive Outro record label.
The 45 was released during January 2022 but it’s taken a couple of months for this potent disc to circulate in the UK and through the hands of some of my trusted English record dealers.
I believe that The Wyld Gooms are based in Los Angeles – this place appears to have become the epicentre for possessed cavemen over the past couple of years.
I certainly recognise a few of the members from other outfits such as The Premonitions and The Violet Mindfield.
Wearing Sun-glasses during the night time, worshipping vintage Vox instruments and banging the drums with dinosaur leg bones is all the rage with bands on the Outro label. The Wyld Gooms are their newest protégés.
Both sides of their single are group originals, bass player / vocalist, Mickey Briks also performed recording duties.
You Did Me Wrong
The top side, “You Did Me Wrong” is a high-speed, wild garage punk raver with fuzz, screams, paint-peeling compact organ and pissed-off words. In other words E-S-S-E-N-T-I-A-L.
The flip, “Doesn’t Matter To Me” owes a great deal to some of those early-eighties cabbalistic garage classics from the first ‘Pebbles’ / ‘Back From The Grave’ inspired revival.
I’m hoping that The Wyld Gooms don’t call it quits before they release more records like this one.
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