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"The Sign Offs"

The Sign Offs

 

This is what I like to see bands that come roaring out of the gate with self-titled debuts and sharp first-person jabs about how and why they're going to break the chains of their past and be somebody… I mean that's what it's always been about right?

I'm a bit thrown looking over the band member names and there's not one Jonsson or Ingvordsen in the
bunch!

Amazingly enough, their jet black motor city styled garage Rock and rage brings to mind the many overseas greats that bombarded the Western shores during the last several years so when you hear a band like this, evidently five American kids, maybe from Boston or Seattle-you can hear elements of both-right away you're thinking The
Hellacopters, or you're thinking Gluecifer, or Turbonegro… who all got it ironically from the ol' school Stooges stage and made a career of riff regurgitation and sonic peelouts!

Now of course we got plenty of our own Indie-label black booted, dirty fingered street preacher types from the lower east side too!

The Sign Offs are signing off on their dependence on anything and anyone here with eleven tracks of rancor,
reflection and rebellion forged of shout-along choruses and four minute tunes about life affirming truths… a rabid Rock and Roll show of tattoos, toughness, and tuneless guitars!

Released by Disaster Records

Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu]
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