Labels: No Idea Records
Review by: Samuel Fowler
A band called Gatorface from Florida on No Idea records, have any
thoughts or ideas about what this band might sound like that are
springing unbidden into your mind? Yeah? You’re spot on y’know. As it
turns out, it’s mister Horsebites and another chap out of the
exceptionally good New Mexican Disaster Squad rolling out some slabs
of NMDS-goes pop punk. And just as with every Horsebites connected
project the artwork is delicious.
It would be slightly misleading to suggest that Gatorface are mining
fresh new seams or exploring hitherto unseen dusty corners of the
musical attic. I don’t think they really care about that, though, and
you probabably shouldn’t either. A very good point of reference would
be somewhere between the driving melodies of No Trigger and the more
forceful mien of everyones favourite grumps, Propagandhi. The snarls
are there, the swampy gritty melodies, all the bits you’ve come to
either love or skip sprightly around. If we’re being honest here, if
they’d pretended this was a new NMDS album, I doubt many would have
complained.
I don’t really know what more to say. They’ve spotted that the wheel
is already a fairly unimprovable shape, collected a few of them, and
crafted a fine vessel. They’re not jawdroppingly amazing, but I’m sure
a good laugh live, and certainly craft some smart tunes. And why ask
more than that?