Labels: Fuxony
Review by: Ian Cavell
At last, the Propagumbhis commit some tunes to CD. I’d already been won over by a totally great gig they played at the ‘intimate’ Voltz down in Southampton – a gig where so many people turned up the STE had to put a little ‘sold out’ sign on the door. But then again, our living room is probably bigger than Voltz so don’t get too excited. Anyway, this is three tracks of ska-punk courtesy of Fuxony records (took me ages to get that joke, hmm – how slow) which should, but unfortunately doesn’t quite, hit the mark.
There are a number of rocking points to this CD (and the slim, “chart music” style case is definitely NOT one of them). For starters, they cover ‘Good Guys Don’t Wear White’ and they’re own songs posses the kind of clued up, insightful lyrics that you don’t always associate with ska-punk. But, for some reason, the music kind of passes me by. Maybe they have better songs. Maybe after such a great live show my expectations were too high, I don’t know. I just didn’t connect with this in the way I thought I would. Shame.