Damn, you've never seen so many cracks in your life. Cracks in the
pavement, cracks in the skull, crystal crack, "Crack City Rockers." I
mean, you need a crash helmet just to get through the first song!
There's way too much information leading up to how these guys came
together. I can go over it twice and still not come away with
anything. It would probably help, however, if I didn't have this deafening
noise shooting out the back. With chips on their shoulders a mile wide,
these guys rant over everything from politics to ignorance to prejudice to
generalized flag-bashing.
That's all well and good. I appreciate
the music, the after effects of which I'll learn to live with, but hey,
sayin' it's one thing, doing something about it is another. Get up on the
podium or get the hell out. I don't need anyone to open my eyes. If it's
better somewhere else show me the fucking way!
Sticking up for the
under-achievers and the voiceless new generation, yes, little's changed
since the first strains of Minor Threat bullied their way into
blank-minded followers of capitalism and corruption. We're going full
throttle here, a crash course in cranial fracture separated by brief
moments of inner peace.
There is a fervent talent amidst this sometimes
too gratuitous dissolution of authority in all forms. There's a
shape-shifting
measure of combat booted revenge kicking the right wing out the door and
let's do things our way attitude. But I've been there, done that.
Issue jumping upstarts, whose best songs include "The Good, The Bad & The
Leftover
Crack," "Gay Rude Boys Unite" and "Crack City Rockers," is bonded together
with a Reggae-infused Ska-spewing rant, and "we'll take it back"
neck-wrenching attitude. Everything else is basically yer
finger-pointing, semi-automatic, high-speed and low-level shit-shoveling
noise that gets old very quickly.