Labels: Init – Keeper
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Now this is a good record. I have had a few Ricky Fitts songs in MP3 format for a while, but now they
get round to doing an actual 7″ with 4 tracks on it. And it’s rather fine. I also should note that the
packaging is quite cool, it folds out into a big US dollar bill, with some weird pictures on it.
Anyway. The first song is “Dance In Blood And Pretend It’s Snow” (Screamo! Emo!) which starts things
off nicely. It is a rush of urgent, spirited music with pained vocals and instrumentation that is
characteristic of the emo genre. It rocks out in a fashion and hits a groove too. Nice. The following
song has a superb twinkly intro that could have come straight off the Plunger LP, you half expect
Lomacchio to come in and mumble something, but a member of Ricky Fitts starts singing instead. I bet
you weren’t predicting that! Anyway, it’s a more subdued song, that gets rumbly and more jagged at
times – definitely sounds like one of those pointlessly obscure mid 90’s emo bands that I own all the
records by. I mean, if I told you this was some unreleased track by, say, Mainspring, you wouldn’t bat
an eyelid.
Ok, lets flip it and get on with rocking out to “Modelling School Is A Joke”, which has dark and moody
guitar mixing it with the high pitched sung vocals. It keeps up the levels of quality that were found
on the other side of the 7″. We finish up on more emo with “Ghost In Your Clothes” which goes all like
some Indian Summer song at the start, but with vocals like the Vida Blue. Real nice. Different things
go on at once, and then it all explodes frantically. This might be my favourite track on here. Damn impressive.
Ok. So that was kind of a disjointed review, but it is late and stuff. This 7″ is ace. Buy it.