Labels: Engineer
Review by: Tom Sloan
This is tiny! One of those little 3 inch cd’s, 2 tracks, about 4 short minutes in total. Anyway, this is a c.d. repress of the 7″ released a while back, documenting planes in the deep elm era, somewhere between “s/t’ and’ knife in the marathon’.
Pmfs seem to have near-legendry status these days after the No Idea stuff, but it’s easy to forget they fucking rocked all along really. “Fucking Fight’ is classic early planes, a big opening riff, before slipping into a quieter part with those “badly sung but good’ vocals, before going back to that opening riff with but this time with one vocalist holding a long, sung note with the other screaming like he’s on fire or something. It’s all good, especially when the music cuts out, and the guy yelps from somewhere “1, 2, 3!!’ before it cuts back to the loudness. Intense! When they’re in this form, I find planes stop you right in your tracks and don’t let you do anything else with yourself until the music’s over “” it’s pretty hard to concentrate when they’re playing.
Surprisingly, the second track is ever so slightly sub-par for a band that at the same time produced such belters like “leaning the room’ “copper and stars’ and “staggerswallowswell’. It’s still a solid track, but I’ve come to expect a bit more than the regular melodic riff/screaming formula that pmfs surpass many times on their records. That said, it’s pulled off with the kind of afore-mentioned intensity that luckily elevates the track from average, to a thing of good-ness.
At £3.50 this isn’t exactly cheap, but I would say this is well worth picking up for avid pmfs worshippers.