Say You Like New Coke Or there Will Be Hell To Pay
New Coke
Duct Tape Your Mouth EP
Black Gladiator / Slovenly Recordings, 2014
Three songs here. Three very neurotic type of songs of unsteady people involved in unsteady behavior. It feels like a Dexter marathon was on TV while these songs were being written. Sounding vaguely like the wonderful and almost completely forgotten first wave of LA punk/new
wave act, Felony, New Coke, sound and feel a little unsteady on their feet, almost like your uncle who drinks too much waiting for any reason to corner you at a family gathering and go on at length about the government implant in his neck or how we didn’t really lose in Viet Nam.
That’s sort of a nice change of pace, that a band doesn’t seem too well thought out. Or emotionally stable. So try New Coke with an open mind and willing heart, or else . . . . . .