Not Tonight And The Headaches - If You Were Real, You'd Do Your Own Stunts - CD (2015)

Labels: Boss Tuneage
Review by: Oli Saunders

Based on the photos inside the album, it looks like Not Tonight & The Headaches are having a lot of fun with their brand of pop punk. They remind me of a slowed down and more restrained version of The Huntingtons; I’m not initially impressed, as they rely a little too much on repeated choruses, but the album grows on me. Track four, ‘Reasons To Smile’, is a great love song number, for example. There’s hints of Bad Religion as an influence but, overall, the band fall short, with lyrics and riffs that are not sufficiently interesting.

18th February 2017