Who knew you could mix bad indie a la AVAIL and FUGAZI with bad NEUROSIS and HIS HERO IS GONE influences? It's just indescribably bad to me. How bad is it? Dude, I have a filling that has popped out twice on the gum line, and having cold liquids hit that spot is better than this. I'd rather have a mouth full of fucking root canals than see this band live. Seriously.

All I can hear is Uncle Jam himself, George Clinton, greezily sliding off that line in "Mommy, What's A Funkadelic?" "I was cool. But I had no groove." Now flip it and you have this band. All sortsa groove but no cool. No soul. This is the equivalent of the Very Distribution catalog come to life. Music for white math nerds into crapola like COALESCE. The future kings and queens of the hive who want to believe they aren't the sons and daughters of wasp-y fornicators. Replicate this process again and again if you choose and every time you will wind up with these types. The only thing that changes is the sound.

It's essentially mall punk for "kids" who can't play dress up; music for people who want to be different but what would the neighbors think? They need identity to feel separated from the herd and they seek solace in garbage like this. People who enjoy things described as "mathy" will love this. They can go to sleep to it just under their DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN posters as they snuggle into their vintage Star Wars sheets and try not to unscab their latest tattoo that incorporates some sort of 80s toy line and whatever their latest belief system. Me? I'd rather pass out on the floor and take comfort in the fact that I don't need shitty music to make me feel better about a perceived lack of identity.

- Two Tub Tony

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