The So So Glos
Tourism/Terrorism
Green Owl Records
4/10
There’s something to be said about sloppiness as it pertains to punk, and sloppiness as it pertains to…chaos. The drums are Meg White at her very beginning, the guitars are as thin as Dubya’s upper lip (buuuurrrrnnn!) and the vocals sound like someone’s had too much Red Bull and vodka at the local karaoke bar. It’s just not together. Now, there are many punk bands that I listen to that sound like a fourth grade music appreciation class, but jeez- this is the same bedlam, without the necessary passion. I appreciate the attempts at political commentary, but I’m not feeling it. “Love or Empire,” a nice little acoustic track, might be more what they should be going after. Anything requiring more energy, and they’re likely to fuck it up.
Jonathan Yost