Grand Mal's Bad Timing Re-Released Worldwide

 

Grand Mal's Bad Timing re-released worldwide on Spotify et al by Stockholm's GROOVER Recordings thanks to St. Chriko and Greg Glover

A Lost Classic from the Turn of the Century

…Grand Mal, a picturesque four-piece who have clearly been around the Brooklyn block a few times. The title of their third album (Bad Timing) is loaded with wry self-knowledge — 1999’s Maledictions aced the scuzzy NYC sound just before it rose again — but core member and frontman Bill Whitten has no need for fashion. — MOJO

They’ve left the gutter behind for Bad Timing; an elegant dive into open-hearted Stones and Faces territory, with a deadpan Mary Chain aspect to the vocals…all is good times and bourbon. — TimeOut

The NYC quartet’s best tracks still strut with a swagger halfway between T.Rex and the Stone’s Honky Tonk Women. Grand Mal has seized the opportunity to score another winner. — CMJ

Packs more gritty urban drama into five minutes than Dick Wolf can spew forth in an entire season of Law & Order spinoffs. — Pitchfork

Grand Mal has Johnny Thunders riffs for a heart, Suicide’s appetite for destruction for a soul, and its head filled with the drone of the City that never comes down off its speed jag — NME

Grand Mal…looks back to the ’70s with swaggering melodies, distorted guitars and the appropriate pose of hedonistic cynicism — New York Times

Ageless, pretension-free rock and roll. Bad Timing is the nazz — UNCUT. Strong songs, cool image and fuck-it-all attitude — Creem Magazine

Good old adrenalized rock and roll played by impossibly skinny men…Bill Whitten; a singer of anthems to falling down and not getting up. — NME

Three parts Rolling Stones, one part Velvet Underground: rock with an unabashed swagger. — NY Times

They rehearse in a rat-infested E. Village room, are dressed by Bowery thrift shops and make the kind of glassy-eyed racket that gives music a good name. -NME

Solid and sleazy. — Melody Maker

Bad Timing could just as well be called Exile on East 14th Street. — Village Voice

as per The Un-Herd Music

"The lyrics make the band's intent plain by slyly referencing both the Only Ones' Peter Perrett and the Stooges' "Rock Action", and listeners who don't need footnotes to understand those particular namedrops will find much to enjoy here. Whitten's main stroke of genius amounts to combining the wasted vibe and lazy riffing of Exile on Main Street with the sultry boogie sensibility of T.Rex (even adding wailing Lady Soul backing vocals on some tracks). The resulting hybrid replaces glam androgyny with a kind of macho fatalism that sounds immediately familiar, though trust me, glam rock never sounded like this. But it should have." (RP 2003) o i

Be sure to check out Bill Whitten’s latest album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlcMy6Yt0bY