Krashing out of the speakers, 'Kristy Majors and the Thrill Kills' fuses glam to rock of the punk, rather than cock, variety. Born in the late '60s, Majors cut his rock 'n' roll teeth at clubs like CBGB and to a soundtrack of bands like the New York Dolls, Plasmatics, Ramones, KISS and Blondie: for this new solo project he's taken the most obvious sum of those parts, rolled 'em up into a crude ball, and thrown it at the studio wall to see how much sticks. The result is one of the most infectious glam punk long players that you'll dirty your auditory canals with this year. Majors has brought the current Pretty Boy Floyd rhythm section - bassist JK Famous and drummer (and former Murderdoll) Ben Graves (although another former PBF member played the drums on the album, Kari Kane) - along for the ride, and teamed them up with current BulletBoys guitarist Nick Rozz. Majors sang, wrote, produced, recorded, mixed, waxed the car, sanded the floor, painted the house: if he's a control freak when it comes to his solo work then it's a worthwhile journey into power craziness as the album can't be far, if anything, away from his original vision. From raucous opening track, 'Beginners Luck', to closer, 'Magazine', via nine other trashy future anthems (including a raw cover of The Who's 'Baba O'Riley' that uses the oft-mistaken [working] title of the song, 'Teenage Wasteland'), 'Kristy Majors and the Thrill Kills' operates out of the gutters and has a Converse-sneakered foot in both the '70s and '80s: the former in both punk and glam - 'Broken Lip', for example, mixing up the Sweet and Sex Pistols to glorious effect - and the latter a scuzzed-up, post-Appetite street rock 'n' roll. Majors solos like Johnny Thunders at every available opportunity, sings like Ace Frehley - recklessly flat yet without a care in the world on 'Deadbeat' - and leads the more than capable band through a catalogue of songs that revel in a lazy carelessness, yet pretty much nail the whole trash rock throwback spirit of the record. 'Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz' may well be the album that the majority remembers Majors for but, for me, 'Kristy Majors and the Thrill Kills' is, quite possibly, the coolest album that he's ever put his name to: listen to the Stooges/Pistols throb of 'Stagnation Street' and tell me I'm wrong. This is one Thrill Kill cult that you won't be afraid to become a member of...