| Review: The Blameshifters - Disenfranchised Anarchist |
| Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
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Well, well, well. Give me ‘American Punk' and you are often signing up for a rant about how much I can't stand it in general. (I know I like Rancid, but that doesn't COUNT) So when I was given a Blameshifters cd to review, I eyed it with suspicion for some time, (even though I thought the sleeve was cute-as) and eventually bit the bullet...and really really liked it and would like to adopt them. So there.
Mat Loman (guitar and vocals) Pigman (bass and vocals) and Steveness (drums) got together in about 2003 and have swept through Californ-i-a like an enjoyable infection, playing shows with Social Unrest, Agent Orange and The Dickies to name but a few, they're hailed as one of the most reliable bands on the Northern California punk scene, they apparently put the punk into punctual (and bloody good too-punctuality is the politeness of Princes don'tcha know!) They released their debut album Feast before the Famine (which was independently recorded) in 2005 and their second Disenfranchised Anarchist was again, independently recorded and released in late 2007. They also feature on the compilation It's Not A Sinking Ship! on Abandon Hope Records in 2008. I'm completely digging on the sinister intro of Not Religious which is tongue-in-cheek amusing considering the content (Priests and Nuns doing...what?!) and the melodies and delicious bass lines on Happiest Boy in America are a delight and you get a real value-for-money sense from the album as a whole, as not only do you get 15 kick ass songs, but they pack so much into each song that it's like listening to three songs at a time (which is a damn good trait in a band that I like to encourage) I'm off to once again shift my attention to The Blameshifters. Enjoy. Listen to 'Disenfranchised Anarchist'
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