This Swedish group have raged through the garage punk scene since their formation in 1999, but for
Monkey Time, their fourth album, they've aptly added a fourth member, organist
Jens Lagergren, whose Farfisa organ washes their sound in a newfound psychedelia. Although
the Maggots wiggled into a niche in the garage scene, their influences are more varied than that, ranging from classic R&B -- check out singer/guitarist
Mans P. Mansson's homage to
Chuck Berry on the storming covers of "Go Away" and "Tomato Juice," through British Invasion (best examples
the Zombies tinged "You Don't Want Me"), and on to British punk,
the Cramps, and in the case of "Make Me Fly" a bow to
Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman," while their jubilant anthem "Ain't Nothing But a Maggot" will get everyone in earshot wriggling.