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Dan Schafer returns

Patrick T. Grady | Palatine, IL | 04/06/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Pretty good power-punkish pop brought to you by Dan Schafer, former vocalist of under appreciated Sludgeworth, but you might know him better as Danny Vapid of Screeching Weasel and Riverdales fame. No, its not the most original sounding music in the world, but let's face it, pop-punk, power pop, or whatever you want to call it really stopped being very original years ago. Its kinda like the blues. Everybody is doing something sort of similar, just injecting their own feel on the music and sometimes that's really what it takes. Anyway, its got slight a Bad Religion feel to it (at least in the vocals) and reminds me, at times, a little bit of a darker Green Day. But whatever influences you might hear in the music, you're not gonna sense the Ramones overdose that saturated the Riverdales. Good stuff, nothing earth shattering, but an enjoyable listen. Features a guest rhythm section of B-Face, formerly of the Queers, and Lumley from Screeching Weasel and Squirtgun."

Renewing my faith in the future of punk

Brandon Clark | Hays, KS | 02/11/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I bought this CD at an Anti-Flag show because I trust their taste in music more than any other newer punk band out there today (whatever you may define "newer" as). These guys sound like a hybrid of Bad Religion and Green Day (although I dislike Green Day, I mean this in the best possible way). They even play an almost identical guitar riff on the song "Bottom Out" (my favorite track) as Bad Religion does on "Latch Key Kids." Their lyrics are not as intelligent as those written by Greg Graffin, but the break from socio-political punk is refreshing. I always loved Screeching Weasel and it is great to see Vapid has not lost his touch. Other great songs include "Take A Look", "Solitude", and "Whole Lot of Nothing" but I usually listen to the album all of the way through."