Morbid Outburst My Explosion LP
Hardcore, sort of like a fast PERSONALITY CRISIS. Rock structures, pounding beat, crunch guitar, semi-theatrical vocals. Heavy handed.
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Hardcore, sort of like a fast PERSONALITY CRISIS. Rock structures, pounding beat, crunch guitar, semi-theatrical vocals. Heavy handed.
Classical-style punk from Florida. The songs are catchy and the recording is raw enough, but the lyrics are about as retarded as you can get, even though they’re meant as jokes. “Wetback” is chauvinistic if not actually racist, and then there are your typical misogynistic, anti-gay, and anti-hippy songs. “More Beer” is a gas, but I bet Anita Bryant would be proud of these “punkers.”
I thought these guys broke up, but here they are again with six tunes. Four are rippin’, two are slower punk, and all are snarled out with heavy doses of satire. Enjoyable.
SECTOR FOUR exhibits a garagey mid-tempo approach on their debut EP. They’ve got a chunky guitar sound and the kind of goofy humor that seems to be common in Florida. “Jump on You” and “Time” are irresistably catchy numbers with cool choruses; “Heartbreak Hotel” is an absurd punked-out trashing of an old ELVIS song; the rest are nondescript.
Five Florida bands share this record. HATED YOUTH are full of clichés, but have a really intense thrash sound; SECTOR 4 do both thrash and fast punk; MORBID OPERA are simultaneously weird, melodic, and garagy, and have female vocals; RAT CAFETERIA offer thrashy punk with gruff singing and some cool guitar leads; and ROACH MOTEL (who put out this entertaining EP) return with more garage thrash, including “My Dog’s into Anarchy,” the best funnypunk song to have appeared so far this year.
