Broken Barcodes Nothing Groundbreaking Here LP
The biggest crime of this record is that it’s boring. I have a feeling, based on their album title, that they are aware. Everything about this is amateurish. That first song’s drumming is atrocious. Anyways, this is the latest occurrence of scraping the bottom of the “punk nostalgia” barrel. Did you or someone you know listen to bands like the QUEERS, SCREECHING WEASEL, and…OK, everyone stop. Hang on a second. They have a song called “January 6 (The Most Idiotic Day in Modern American History).” It’s also bad, but what a title! The pacing is boring and the lyrics are pretty cringe. I feel I need to break it to you that romanticized pop punk is not the best venue to recruit political activists. And in the very next song, you sing about how your girl gets “five stars from your heart.” It’s super tone-deaf. Thanks for being on the right side of history, but, like, make a PROPAGANDHI-worship band instead. Based on their Bandcamp description, they are not taking this very seriously: “Three neighborhood dads in need of a hobby, united united in a quest to fend off boredom, attain unfulfilled juvenile dreams, and make use of those dusty instruments, all while trying not to piss off the neighbors.” Also, by the way, the drumming starts to suck again on “I Don’t Sleep a Lot.” No thanks.
