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Next week, Nick Curran The Lowlifes will be releasing their new record, Reform School Girl, and Im going all in.

From the genius production that will confound you--youll swear you are listening to some lost, crazy-ass rock and roll record from 1958---to the killer riffage and relentless energy, Reform School Girl has been kicking my ass for a few weeks now.

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Clearly, this allowed the ever-musically voracious Curran a chance to stretch his chops and imbibe more of the vast array of influences that spark his interests, from 40s jump blues and 50s rock roll, to 70s punk and 80s hard rock.

All of which Curran brings to bear on his fiendishly inspired, 2010 solo comeback Reform School Girl.

A fiery, campy, and insanely rockin album, Reform School Girl sounds like something along the lines of Little Richard backed by the Misfits with Phil Spector recording the proceedings in his garage.

Which isnt to say that the album sounds sonically gross -- raw, for sure, but aint that the point -- in fact, Curran has hooked up yet-again with his longtime partner in crime Billy Horton who helped deliver the old-school vintage sound that Curran has made his trademark.

Further, while Curran can lay blues-pipe as good as any of the other contemporary T-Bone Walker and Jimmie Vaughan freaks, the blues is only one of many connective musical tissues he rips through here.

To these ends, the title track finds Curran nodding his Wild One motorcycle cap to the Ronettes as he humorously turns the standard girl-gone-bad story on its head.

Also inspired is the Ritchie Valens -esque rave-up Filthy (a Deguello carry-over), and Curran s revelatory head-thumping take on ACDCs Rocker.

Nick Curran Reform School Girl Rapidshare