As a
genre the world of rock is pretty bulletproof.
No matter
how dismissive mainstream music journalists are about it, or how
unimpressed the chart following teens are, the rock acts just keep
ploughing ever onwards.
I am sure
somewhere someone has written a thesis about it, but for me I think
its popularity is rooted in a no frills attitude and how the actual
bands main focus is to make music rather than grasp for fame.
That
could of course be bullshit, but do you know what isn't bullshit?
Debrasco's
album 'The Joys of Chaos'.
That's
right.
It sounds
like the band are looking to take the eloquent power of Pearl Jam,
and the gonzo approach to power pop that bands like The Wildhearts
had in spades, and corral them together while sprinkling some punk
fairy dust over it all.
It's a
tall order, and there are times that they fall short of getting to
grips with it, but over the course of the album there are far more
hits than misses, and as they are aiming rather high that's not too
shabby at all.
At a
hefty sixteen tracks they are obviously looking to provide value for
money, but maybe a better approach would have been to trim a few
songs off it and then issue a ten track album of killer tunes and
then use issue two four track eps' leading off with an album track
and backed with three songs and in that way it could have been spaced
out a bit, but then again that's just an opinion and as they say
opinions are like arseholes as we all have them.
So don't
let that minor brain fart of a thought detract you away from the band
as it's pretty much irrelevant to the sheer magnitude of what is on
offer.
What
these guys need is a name producer and a few weeks in a top class
studio, and I suspect that they are well aware of that, but as it
stands this is the sort of album that should if there is any justice
draw enough attention to them for that to happen.
It's the
advert writ large in neon screaming 'look at me' and if you do then I
doubt many would find much to be disappointed about.
In fact
I'm struggling to think of the last band I heard that had as much of
a crossover appeal as these guys.
From
melodic pop punk rock to grunge-tastic anthems they have their finger
in every pie and manage to keep it all on track without sounding like
an ill stitched patchwork quilt of influences.
Hey. Is
that The Dead Boys I hear muscling in on the Yo-Yo's?
Like I
said, not too shabby at all.
