Laruso - Plain Paper Napkins (Clean Version) - CD (2009)

Labels: Autonomy Recordings
Review by: Andy Malcolm

Clean version? What is the dirty version? Sadly, I no longer have the promo bumf, so we will be left forever wondering. Perhaps the dirty version just consists of the singer guy going FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK for 3 minutes and a few seconds? This hilarious one song sounds like Foo Fighters and One Hundred Reasons with shocking MP3 style production, you know the one, where bands record their songs to sound like 192Kbps even though they have a much wider range of bits per second available to them. The production is utterly shocking, and this hideous kow-towing to the popular format of our times rather disgusts me. Anyways, if you are into stadium rock with emo parts then Laruso will be your big love, but I am pretty sure in the 12 years Collective has been going, we never once gave a good review to something that sounds like this. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.