The Maggie’s Marshmallows – “Come Along” (Get Hip GH-261) September 2014

Prague garage punk: The Maggie’s Marshmallows “Come Along” – I’m a bit late discovering this potent teenage drama-rama garage punk 45. But it’s better late than never! Maggie’s Marshmallows hail from Prague in the Czech Republic, not a country usually associated with fuzztoned wanton mayhem.

However, this disc contains the perfect type of garage punk that I have loved for decades. Simple, straight-forward, uncomplicated and a nasty noise created by young outsider punks with enough fuzz and moodiness to stop rampaging elephants in their tracks.

fuzzy disturbance

The lead singer / bass player hides her face behind long hair and plays barefoot, the drummer lays down a glorious primitive beat and the lead guitarist is tall, lean, even mysterious and dressed to kill. A perfectly formed fuzzy disturbance and a disc richly deserving its place in “Thee Crypt”.

Their Facebook page hasn’t been updated since 2018 so it appears all over for this Prague outfit.

Garage goo crawling out of the witch’s stew, sticky and thick as a tar pit, influences might be Guantanamo Baywatch, Detroit Cobras, the Cramps and of course the source of it all, the garage rock of the 1960s.

Get Hip Recordings (GH-1175): Debut album by Prague (Czech Republic) Garage-Punk trio. Recorded and produced by Detroit’s Jim Diamond (Dirtbombs, The White Stripes, Fleshtones, The Cynics).

Raw, wild female vocals reminiscent of The Brood and 60’s Girl Garage bands and really cool surf-tinged guitar sound. The Maggie’s Marshmallows, a young garage-punk trio grown in the moldy basement of a forgotten substation in Prague.

fuzzed-out

Influenced by the fuzzed-out, underground sounds on the Back From The Grave compilations and shaped by surf tunes, ‘60s punk, and Mexican soap opera soundtracks, this female-fronted Czech three-piece packs a wallop!

Garage, dark and dirty!  Recorded at Studio de la Trappe in South France, The Maggie’s Marshmallows features 12 tracks written throughout the band’s career.

Featuring production by the legendary Jim Diamond the album is a testament to the group’s evolving moods, tempered by an undercurrent of contemporary musical tastes; an LP filled to the brim with thick layers of reverb, primitive riffs, primordial rhythms—and guest organs by Jim Diamond himself! Dark and dirty, indeed.

line-up:

Meg Janderova: vocals, bass
Vaclav Dobes: guitar
Vojtech Buric: drums