You can get hypnotised by gold vinyl and believe that you can travel back through time and I think it just happened to me. Nonetheless, to return to the matter in hand, Mickey are a band from Chicago so the fact they do a bit of musical referencing on their album "Rock N Roll Dreamer" that involves the New York Dolls, The Ramones and the Dictators is probably no surprise but to reference the glory days of seventies British glam rock?
And they do. As that stylus retrieves the music from the groves, it is like a musical archaeological dig. "Dance", right enough, could be a Ramones song but with a hop, skip and jump, Mickey are across the Atlantic to rob T Rex on "My Lights" and Slade on "She's So Crazy". It's like the Chinn/Chapman sound has been transferred against its will to the Windy City by a Ramones cover band with a grudge against Michael Bublé. They sound dirty and untidy but their playing is anything but. A pastiche? Perhaps but I think not. You've got to have an affection for that period in musical history to carry an album like this off and it is that very affection that glues things together here and makes "Rock N Roll Dreamer" so much more than trash revisited.
The sound quality of the vinyl won't win any prizes but, as the pressing is plenty good enough to allow you to turn that volume right up, you probably won't worry too much about that. Early pressings are on gold vinyl. Available from Hozac Records.