DYNAMITE BOY
Devoted (Offtime Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Melodic punk four-piece with big, loud, driving, matching bass and guitar lines, harmonizing vocals shared between band members and fairly decent percussion. The songs are all love songs, which I suppose ties in with the album title, without even one song thrown in about politics or questioning authority or the validity of Wisconsin - just love songs, including a cover of Simple Mind's "Forget About Me." It's a pretty short CD (20 minutes), one which I would be more comfortable calling an EP than an album, but I guess if you're hailing back to the old punk rock tradition of ultra-quick songs, this fits in with that whole grand scheme (although it's also part of that tradition to put 10 - 20 songs of this length on one record).

© 2003 - Holly Day