Labels: Paper and Plastick
Review by: james pacanowski
When I went to Fest back in 2008 I met some nice chaps from Ohio who were going to put on a hotel room show with Coffee Project. But then the hotel management found out about it and said it was a no-go. Yet the only regret I have is that it means I find myself without an interesting way to start this review.
Here I am 3 years later and having actually listened to them finally, and I still can’t find anything interesting to say about them. It counts a member of Less Than Jake and a member of Rehasher as its sole participants, and they play the kind of acoustic-punk Gainesville is notorious for producing in droves. Albeit with some Less Than Jake horn stuck on top. There’s a song with some banjo, one or two with a harmonica and a few with some female backing vocals, and that’s about as far as they’re willing to shake it up. Which anyone who has listened to an acoustic-punk band will tell you isn’t really shaking it up a whole lot at all.
It’s not really awful or objectionable, but nor is it any good. Much like that show-that-never-was, there’s just not really a whole lot you can say about it. Put it on and it’s just something that happens for 50 minutes and is immediately forgotten about. Don’t put it on, and the only regret you’ll have is if you end up having to find something interesting to say about them 3 years later.