This is gonna get real ugly… Here you've got a bunch of rabid hockey
fans… we'll assume anyway, they apparently know what a zamboni is -- then
again unless we're talking about some whacked out sorta Brooklyn cab
driver-type slang that us Northerners haven't quite met up with yet… but
no, a few songs in and it's clear these guys know their stuff! Two Man
Advantage scores quickly within the opening minutes and doesn't let up
on the offensive zone pressure till well into the period!
Gotta be
quick with this one, there's barely room to exhale between songs -- "Don't
Label Us" a mean, anthemic type that leads the charge and dare I'd
suggest this might be a great between-periods home team motivator… nah,
probably not, but it'll surely ignite a fire in someone somewhere. Now
here's sort of a lucid moment only the third song in and all of a sudden
the guitars vanish into the background in favor of some unexpectedly
well sung verses for "New Season" and a rather catchy one at that. Back
to black again, and blue for that matter, "Opinionated Motherfucker,"
but wait, there go those near harmonic verses again -- actually more for
the chorus which gives it a corny twist, but gets the point across about
as well as a stick to the ribs.
The Long Island, New York natives have
plenty to be pissed about -- I mean, they had to have grown up Islanders
fans, so what better reason to have a world-sized chip on yer shoulder?
They're all about blades, boozing, bruising and brawlin… hey wait, that
sounds almost familiar. I know these guys did something a while back on
another label and definitely much shorter than this one -- the damned
thing's got seventeen cuts on it -- So pop the top, pass the puck,
breakaway and rejoice in an icy cold soundtrack for the coolest game on
earth!