34 minutes of great chainsaw buzz and bleached-out pop from Terry Malts. the strength of this album is its feel. its got a great sun bleached feel. through raging up tempo tunes like "Where Is The Weekend" to the slower feed back layered "No Big Deal", that great sun soaked feel is maintained. there's a great moderate lo-fi feel through out the record with a healthy dose of reverb and thinness on the vocals that give you the sense of listening to an old transistor radio. the effect isn't as heavy as you'd expect on a Mikal Cronin record but you get the idea. pick up a copy of "Killing Time" and lay back down on your floor, let the sun shine in. no matter how grey it is outside "Killing Time" will bleach it out with great chainsaw pop sensibilities. great songwriting and heavy on raw guitar. reminds me of the garage pop of Tyler Jon Tyler crossed with the precision buzz of the first Ramones album. i could see this band kicking ass at the Empty Bottle in Chicago. from the pleasantly simple-minded love song "Something About You" with its guitar singing with that droning hum to the surprisingly upbeat anti-religious pop of "Not A Christian", this album covers a lot of ground. "Tumble Down" is a great, raw love song with a chorus that reminds me of Thee Oh Sees.
"Waiting Room" starts with a great insistent buzzing guitar, prying into your subconscious. and it digs in with those pop hooks and playful vocal melodies. when the bass kicks in, i start jumping around and thrashing. its painfully danceable. and when the drummer comes in with that direct, driving ride work, i really lose my shit. i love how the guitar buzzes and hums in "I'm Neurotic". great tone. and that droning beat gets accented with sparse vocals and short, frantic interludes. another great track. pretty much tracks 4-9 are the highlight of the album, an intense juggernaut of buzz and pop.
the mellowness of the vocals in "Nauseous" offsets the ranting, frantic up tempo drumming. its hard to tell if this band is better for mellow sunny day hangs or one man freak out dance parties late at night in your empty apartment. either way, "Killing Time" works well for getting the blood up and easing it back down.
another strong highlight to the album is "Mall Dreams" with its thin lo-fi drums which get offset by that great buzzing chainsaw guitar. a great song about mall culture and mindless consumerism, i love the line "a zombie's still a zombie in J Crew". plus its got a killer vocal melody in the chorus.
great album, full of buzz and pop. pick this fucker up at Slumberland Records:
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