Labels: self released
Review by: Joe Callaghan
Joey Terrible. This is actually a ska-punk band. I know, right? Don’t hover over your Windows time-display. Just take it from me that this is actually the year 2009. I’m all for musical tastes being a little stuck in the past, but ska-punk was nothing more than a brightly coloured practical joke from the 90’s aimed at toddlers with skateboards. Chef pants, face paint, pretending to be Jamaican, parp parp toot toot. Get out of my lugs! I guess I should be straight with you. I didn’t get past the first track. I heard the offbeat upstrokes, the flat singular-tone vocal melodies and the embarrassing system-smashing ranting and I switched off. Not the CD. Me. I switched off. I momentarily didn’t want to feel feelings anymore as I uncontrollably reminisced of a time in my early youth when I was temporarily suckered in by all this cartoon brass pop. Hawaiian shirts, stolen Bowling shoes, Disney channel politics, incessant unnecessary “pick-it-up” and other stupid, meaningless made up words and phrases. Audible vomit, wrapped up and stored away in a secure vault called “The Past’, alongside the rest of rock music’s most embarrassing phases. We’ll need to shimmy open the vault and store this bilge away forever along side Mum and Dad friendly Christian Nu-Grunge all-stars; Creed.