Labels: Carry No Records
Review by: Samuel Fowler
This lot have a song called “Blueberry Pancakes” How awesome is that!
to answer you, it is extraordinarily awesome. There is another song
later on called “Bisto Gravy”. Thats an okay name, but not quite as
good. Thankfully this is rescued by the song called “Belgum Sideburn”.
It is almost tempting to do a review of the song titles instead of the
record. Almost.
Following in the rapid and stratospheric rise of Title Fight /Man
Overboard/ Erection Kids in times of recent, an entire genre of bands
rewinding the clock to Dude Ranch era Blink 182, right down to the
MTVmo sound seems to have burst into life from nowhere. Against my
very considerable better judgement I can’t help but love the cream of
this crop (i.e. not Transit).
Stick Around aren’t anything new whasoever (they REALLY sound exactly
halfwhere between Blink 182 and New Found Glory) but bear that
squarely in mind, taking them for what they are this EP is a blast.
The enthusiasm here is outrageously infectious, and I can’t help being
taken in. I suspect the blithe youthful optimism of Stick Around is at
play here, if this was a band of older dudes, it completely wouldn’t
work.
This stuck a smile on my face, and thats what music should do, right?
So it wins, derivativeness be damned. I’d definately go and see them
live, and they’d almost certainly be a ridiculous amount of fun.