Rock Reviews

They're of the light-hearted Punk variety with Pop overtones and a linear effervescence more associated with the million sellers like a Greenday or Blink.

The tunes come at ya in a first person narrative that doesn't fall over its own self-pity, which in itself is refreshing yet not that we couldn't find it in our hearts should it be known the influence for a "Lezbian Girlfriends" or something like "How To Be An
Idiot" were grounded in reality.

Yeah Kansas, Lawrence to be exact, noteworthy considering no one we've heard of seems to come from there, well maybe it's an Easterner's misgiving but what else we're getting
with MI6 is that grown up, wholesome, Midwestern value applied to a craft usually reserved for street kid stress busters with profound noise-making ability.

Here, think in terms of Three Doors Down with a quicker wrist.

"Lunchbox," featuring a savory selection of enhanced CD contents, satisfies the hunger for playful, catchy, Modern Rock impulse, consistent, and sometimes overly so, the rhythm lines something of an
aural clothesline where you're waiting for a little more of a twist, turn, or knot, someplace, however with the two guitarists, they do some tricky little harmonic parts that nearly suggest technical complexity could exist should they'd chosen to take the route.

Such as we're getting, the music's good, easy to absorb, those backing choruses chiming in at every moment, no verse safe, like any good '80s Post-Mod Costello, Jackson, and Split Enz, which take it or leave it, they belong in there somewhere.

Hey we had the MC5 at one time, so why not the MI6?

There's only four of 'em, but they play good enough to make you think there's two more of them in there somewhere.

Released by Kung Fu Records

Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu]
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