One of the finest and most original band on the Hellcat Records’ roster, Tiger Army, took time to release one EP made of 6 of their old songs ( or anyway old versions ) that they used to play back in 96 and 97. The EP features demo versions of already known songs like “FTW” and “Noctural”, the first featured on “Power Of Moonlite” and the latter on the “Self-titled” album: both demo versions are a bit different from the way we know them on the band’s LP’s, but they still can get the hell-out of rock-a-billy and American Psychobilly sound. If there’s a band today that play this music well, this is Tiger Army. On the EP we can also find the cover of “American Nightmare” originally played by the Misfits: it’s a short song, but it is not your average Misfits cover with Woah’s. The three “new” but “old” songs are “Tempation”, “Jungle Cat” and “Twenty Flight Rock”: these were written by the band sometime ago, as Nick13 himself explains in the booklet of the EP: it might not be as good as their stuff on Hellcat full length albums, but I do believe these songs rock, possibly because written just for the fun and not while planning to release an album. If you are a Tiger Army fan, the “Early Years EP” is what you need to complete your collection of Tiger Army stuff, while if you never heard of this band, I suggest to get “Power Of Moonlite”. | carlo@staff.truepunk.com