Severance Package - Whats Yr Function - CD (2013)

Labels: Shut Up Records
Review by: Norrie Sills

Six songs of catchy punk rawk from Portland USA with duel male and female vocals that work well. Kicks off with title track Whats yr Function seems to lyrically have a poke at people being defined by their jobs (functions). Kind of reminds me of a punked up B52’s (they’ll get hit with that more than they like.) Other influences might be New York Dolls, The Gits and even Girlschool but they have their own thing going here. Stand out track for me was Neighbors Knocking, the gut dropping realisation that those “œnormal” people next door have come to complain about something whilst you are out of your mind in a drug induced paranoid state blaring music. Good punk stuff .