The Mooney Suzuki

In a young man’s mind/It’s a simple world/There’s a little room for music/And the rest is girls, testifies the Mooney Suzuki’s out-of-breath vocalist/guitarist Sammy James Junior. As so many guys can attest, that’s the truth — and that’s what the group’s second album is all about. The Mooney Suzuki, so named for Can’s first two vocalists, Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki, rides hard grooves with devoted fury and crackles with raw energy, recalling Motown-era garage bands that called it quits before any of the Mooney Suzuki’s members were born. And Electric Sweat does all that while sounding like crap, albeit authentically lo-fi crap stylized by White Stripes producer Jim Diamond. The group revisits an era when rock bands had soul rather than trying to save souls, and that’s why these Moonies are not to be ignored.