This is nice stuff. This lot are 4, seemingly slightly unhinged, old school pop punk boys playing DIY style punkrock that is twinged with skacore, the occasional burst of double pedal hardcore and the overwhelming urge to remind people they don’t take life too seriously. They remind me a bit of Antimaniax, and that kind of era of turn of the Millenium tuneage.
I kind of wish they did take themselves a little bit more seriously. This CD is well entertaining. Its another case of the growing urge for bands to stop playing trendy metalcore and going back to powerchords and playing nice and quick. Which is only good news. Fizzy Milk seem to do it better than most bands too – they are genuinely well worth a listen. My only criticism is that if they took themselves a bit more seriously, they would probably be making more consistently great music.
The production is shaky, but it works. The sheer amount of songs crammed onto this album is a little bit bewildering, but like Propagandhi said, sometimes quantity over quality works wonders. If they just started believing a bit more that they could be UK touring punk stalwarts, I’m pretty sure they could be.
For the record, I’m as bewildered as anyone else as to whether Fizzy Milk is a rank euphemism.
Mike