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"Shut Your Mouth" Frenzal Rhomb |
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Shut your mouth and open your eyes… Well not exactly but it just fits. This Frenzal Rhomb thing is what I would call Juvenile Punk music, not quite coming of age but played with a goofy sincerity-tunes like "Everything's Fucked," "I've Had Enough," (which could be an actual radio hit in a less perfect world than which we live) "All Hail the Weekend…" stuff like this, on the forefront nothing so serious as to turn blue over waiting for the world to burn, but within this Jack O' Lantern of a cast and crew there burns an intense maturity in the lyrics. "Local Resident Failure," and "War" serve as good examples until we approach something like "Sodom The Clown," (and where this came from is anyone's guess-but it's not funny!) and then "I Love Fucking Up" with its shimmy and shake good vibrations put to a square-circled lyrical rendition brought upon by ineptitude, distress and carelessness. Frenzal Rhomb, slightly "greener"
than Green Day, nearly a Ramones meets Offspring mix of Pop-drenched speed-whacked
fanaticism and subtle humor… as difficult as it is to spell, it's
decidedly easier to listen to and its got its catchier moments-definitely
mod, playfully skilled in the art of guilty pleasure and the musical equivalent
to the Released by Fat Wreck Chords Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu] P.O. Box 20252
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