Labels: Fat Wreck Chords
Review by: Damien Mills
Hurrah, another fucking ‘supergroup’. OK, so it’s not exactly Velvet Revolver but Only Crime features members / ex members of such bands and All, Descendants, Black Flag, Bane, Converge, Good Riddance and, apparently, Gwar (?!?), it is also on Fat Wreck Chords, but you shouldnt hold this against them as this is a pretty fun record.
Fast poppy melodic hardcore is the order of the day, but not to the degree you’d call it typical ‘fat punk’ as like I said, it’s actually pretty good, it also still has a nice darker edge to it which is I guess shows most members roots out without just rehashing anything or sounding too much like any former bands. This is maybe what modern Bad Religion, for example, should sound like if they weren’t old fat and rich but obviously it doesn’t. I’m not a big BR fan anyway, but this rocks so maybe that’s a bad comparison, ur, whatever, you get the idea…
Maybe not the most original record ever but I guess not much is these days…