Cheena have created one of the most exciting guitar-centric albums in a long time, managing to incorporate a refreshing dose of slide guitar into their snotty, glammy brand of country-punk. "Spend the Night With..." immediately brings to mind some influences, though whether or not Cheena were actively pulling from these sources is another story. The album stomps along with the grinding punk-blues of feedtime, the weird-western twang of Country Teasers, and the morbid flamboyancy of Christian Death. The band seamlessly fuses this sound with a glam-punk strut, topped off with Walker Behl's snarling mutant-vocals that recall the best howls of Stick Men With Ray Guns' Bobby Soxx. Like all great power-pop, Cheena present their tunes in a way that make you wonder if these incredibly catchy hooks were conceived accidentally; or maybe they've somehow succeeded in redefining "hooks" by presenting ones that are both infectious and unsettling.
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