RED SEPTEMBER
Wake Up Call (Static Records)
Reviewed by DJ Johnson

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If you're reading this, the odds are pretty good that you've done your share of surfing the web, and that raises the odds that you'll get a kick out of "WWW," Red September's slamming power pop tune about sinking deeper and deeper into the dot.world while the real world fades away. There are plenty of hooks, both musical and lyrical, throughout Wake Up Call, a CD that's been out since late last year and deserves an audience. "Killjoy," a song aimed right between the eyes of authority, has an extremely funny chorus, and the song's so catchy Norton's Anti-Virus software should have a fix for it. There's nothing revolutionary here, but it's just about all good, fun music, with nice vocal harmonies and solid songs to hang them on, with guitars that are 70/30 jangle/crunch. Wake Up Call is absolutely worth your dollars if you're a power pop fan. I've got them on my watch list to see how things are progressing by album two.

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