Labels: Somebody’s Song Records
Review by: Kunal Nandi
This couldn’t fail. Take two numerically bolstered Leeds punk outfits (Fig. 4.0 and Joe 90), extract two guys from each one, lock them in a room until six songs are done, slap them onto a peach melba 10″ (white with orange streaks, yum!) and watch the sparks fly from your stylus. Great, straight-up (with the odd tricky bit) punk “n’ roll, taking the darker, more vicious edge of the 4.0 and tempering it with the keen melodic sense of the 90.
Actually, to be honest, Fig. 4.0 probably had the keener melodic sense when the mood took them. I may be biased here, but I’d rather have heard this new band sound like Joe 90 getting Fig. 4.0’d up, rather than Fig. 4.0 getting Joe 90’d up, if that makes sense. Regardless, this harks back to the classic 90’s pop punk sound whilst still looking forward “” nothing ground-breaking, but sometimes it doesn’t need to be, right? As expected, insightful and intelligent lyrics too.
The CD version is out stateside on the excellent DIY punk label Plan-It X.