![]() ![]() The band do a remarkable job channeling The Ramones on songs like “Not Another Minute,” “Gimme Gimme Plastic Surgery,” “I Need a Nurse” (which includes the famous lyric from “Pinhead,” “D-U-M-B everyone’s accusing me,” and the anthem, “Adderall,” about the miracle drug that’s one of the most commonly abused. Sandwiched between these are a multitude of tunes, with a lot of your favorites and more whoa-ohs than you can shake a stick at. It’s a twangy pop punk love song with more of a loping feel. “Where We Belong” is the other new song, and it appears near the end of the track listing, on the B-side of the third of three 10” records. It opens with the satirical poem, “Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m a schizophrenic, and so am I.” The song has a huge bounce to it, with big shining guitars to go with the dark lyrics. “Burnt Out,” one of the new songs, opens the collection, and it’s a short, bright song about facing one’s demons. And I am impressed with the level of energy brought to each and every song. And, since this needs to span a hefty two decades, there are a lot of songs here 28 tracks in 51 minutes. Solid musicianship melds seamlessly with powerful gritty lead vocals and robust harmonized backing vocals. They play strong poppy street punk mixed with a Ramones-core feel. And just a casual listen to this new collection provides a very convincing argument for the continued popularity of the band. Is it possible that DeeCracks, the Austrian punk rock band, is twenty years old? Indeed, they are, and to celebrate, the band went into the studio to record new versions of a whole slew of songs that span their catalog, as well as a couple new ones. This gets a real “hell, yeah!”ĭEECRACKS – 20 Years: A Frantic Effort (Pirates Press Records, ) It’s the only track of the EP that didn’t knock me off my feet. “Get Done” and “Leech” are a couple more solid punk tracks that pull no punches, and “Solstice” is the lone ballad of the bunch with a wistful 80s punk ballad meets goth-grunge sort of thing. “Trapped” will submerge you in 1990s Seattle, and you’ll emerge needing a shower to rinse away all of the thick grunge. “Reflector” maintains the big hard punk sound, drops the surf, and pummels you into submission. “Storm” opens the EP with some strong powerful punk-fucking-rock, with a thick arrangement and a surf punk vibe going on, The rhythm section veritably throbs, the vocals shout with incredible rage, and the lead guitar injects some of that East Bay Ray surf sound. This is a six-song EP, and within that short span we get a variety of sounds. ![]() Whoa! This is some heavy, aggressive grunged up punk rock with a strong garage element right here. Good stuff!ĭEATH CASSETTE – Get Rid of It (High End Denim Records, ) The nostalgic sounds make this a fun record, and the variety in sounds keeps the nostalgia from sounding trite and boring. And it’s got a great line in the lyrics: “Rock ‘n’ roll is for adults so what’s left for the kids? / Sex and drugs and video games just doesn’t have the same ring to it.” And “Always Gonna Be My Girl” has the sound of early OMD, deep synths and dark lonesome sounds, but the chorus has the sound of 50s rock and roll. “Plastic Punks” is a fun one, reminiscent of early punk/new wave crossover music, with synth sound effects. It starts with an eerie sound, but after the intro it’s got a cool minimalist Devo sort of sound (or, more precisely but more obscurely, a Richard Bone sort of sound). The variety continues with “Hey Allie,” which is a sort of pep talk to the titular woman and has a 60s jangle to it, for the most part, but the synths in the bridge scream new wave. “WannaBe” is the hardest, edgiest track of the album, with gritty synths providing the beat to this song that leans the heaviest into rock and roll and has the least new wave in it. It’s a pretty unique mix of sounds and genres and it works remarkably well. On just the very first track, “Born Losers,” you can hear bouncy power pop, with subtle new wave dance beat that could have come from Kraftwerk, and when the synths get really big I hear the sweeping epic sounds of Vangelis. All of these can be heard in varying ratios throughout the eleven tracks on this, the band’s third LP. I hear the influence of bands as disparate as The Cars, Cheap Trick, Devo, OMD, and even Vangelis. They play music that ranges from the power pop of the late 70s to the new wave of the early and mid 80s, with synth-fueled arrangements alongside guitar, bass, and drums. AUTOGRAMM – Music That Humans Can Play (Stomp Records, )Īutogramm is a band that spans the North American continent, with members in Seattle, Chicago, and Vancouver.
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