Over the last couple of years
many punk fans have been brushing up against Dirt Box Disco and coming away with
a smile on their faces.
It’s a natural reaction, and you would
be hard pushed to read a less than glowing review of the bands albums, or their
shows.
The main issue the band probably
have – and it’s a good one - is keeping up with demand for fresh material, but
to assuage our withdrawal symptoms here we have Spunk Volcano, and his aptly
monikered Eruptions, dropping a five track EP on us that will very easily carry
the fans over to the next studio outing from Dirt Box Disco.
Best of all though is that it’s
not just more of the same as some would expect, but a glorious racket of pop
infused rock that’s standing tall on its own two feet.
Imagine for a second that Spunk
has stuffed The Dickies, The Ramones, Buzzcocks, Twisted Sister, and even grebo
heroes Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction, into a blender and then chugged
back the contents as the rest of the band shout “down it, down it, down it” at
him.
Once the last drop slips past his
tonsils he spins around in his underpants and with a roar he changes from spunk
volcano lower case punk rocker to the upper case SPUNK VOLCANO KING OF CARTOON
PUNK supercharged with the heroes of the past.
In some alternate universe kids
are probably watching that television show right now, and it’s a world I want
to grow up in.
Every Saturday morning would be
filled with a day-glo cartoon where Spunk fights evil with his trusty sidekicks
armed with nothing more than a leer and a punky song to throw at them.
It would be brilliant wouldn't
it, and in these five tracks we have the perfect soundtrack to it.
Close my eyes and I'm nearly
there.
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