Yet another one of those pieces I wrote for a site offering downloadable stuff for free.
Picking up where his former band The Arrogant Sons of Bitches left off, singer-songwriter Jeff Rosenstock continues to wear punk DIY ethics on his sleeve with his current project Bomb the Music Industry. The collective, which tends to vary in permutation from one gig to the next but is perennially helmed by Mr. Rosenstock, released its raunchy debut Album Minus Band in February 2005. Truly punk rock -- and also ska -- in substance and form, the album, as are the succeeding releases, is a lambasting of establishment and things corporate, and was written and recorded over a period of one month in the singer's bedroom.
While Album Minus Band mostly features the signature loudness and disarray of punk rock in theme and aesthetics, it mellows down in some areas -- quite welcome a reprieve. The track Future 86 is a love song in every sense, with only a folksily strummed acoustic guitar accompanying the lovelorn singer for the most part. The song, however, is amusingly built up toward the end by brass instruments, thickly distorted surf guitar and screaming voices of a hundred in the background.
While Album Minus Band mostly features the signature loudness and disarray of punk rock in theme and aesthetics, it mellows down in some areas -- quite welcome a reprieve. The track Future 86 is a love song in every sense, with only a folksily strummed acoustic guitar accompanying the lovelorn singer for the most part. The song, however, is amusingly built up toward the end by brass instruments, thickly distorted surf guitar and screaming voices of a hundred in the background.
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