When you hear the term
folk punk it immediately leads you to a certain sound.
The sound
of earnest young men and women thrashing on acoustic guitars with
clench jawed determination.
Along
with the sound is the obligatory 'this guitar kills fascists'
statement scratched into the body of said guitar, or if they can
afford it, a sticker bearing the legendary Guthrie comment.
So here's
husband and wife duo of Destroy Nate Allen who are a self proclaimed
folk punk act..........only they are like no other folk punk duo that
you have ever heard before.
Instead
of pandering to expectations they are more about day-glo clothes, big
happy smiles, kindergarten entertainment for adults, and a take on
punk and folk that most people wont really feel has much to do with
either genre.
Although
I would disagree.
From my
point of view the relaxing of the genre rules of both camps has
provided us with an album that has more to do with the real roots of
both styles than most would care to admit.
With this
album, 'With Our Powers Combined' they have thrown a multicoloured
flash-bomb into both sepia toned genres and given them the garish
hues of a cartoon.
It's akin
to listening to the music in the heads of hyperactive kids.
Unabashed,
unashamed and joyous expressions of whatever is going through their
heads at any given time.
Brilliantly
unrestrained.
It's
their seventh album, the first with a full backing band – Gnarbots
– and it's a frenetic head trip of youthful wild abandon as seen
through the eyes of two adults who while they are fully aware of the
the the good and bad in the world, haven't lost the ability to
comprehend it in a more honest and childlike manner, and then express
it in a very exciting way.
The album has been my own little ray of sunshine on a cloudy day, and who could ask for more than that?
Big smiles R US.
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