Fuck the Ergs! Splitting up like that. They weren’t ready to go. They left us with one classic long player, one hit and miss follow up, and a hodge podge of other bits and pieces. For such an awesome band, they were woefully inconsistent. Which is rather peculiar. This departing three tracker hints at what might have been. “Anthem for A New Armada” is a grown up pop punker. With wurlitzer (?), and typically Ergsian lyrics and Descendents-esque riffs / bass, it hits all the right spots and makes one somewhat misty eyed. It barely even comes to an end before they’ve started on “…and the true believers”. Both of these songs would have been more than at home on their epic “Dork Rock Cork Rod” LP, which gives you some indicator as to their goodness. Wistful pop music of the very best kind. Things draw to a conclusion on Piltdown Man, who I believe is a fake caveman or something. Sadly, this song is not really that good, maybe because not the awesome vocalist sings. Oh well. The other two songs are shit hot at least.
Goodbye to the Ergs! Failures the world over will miss you very much.