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Loud, unabashed, unforgiving, relentless, rock-n-roll
music; Deadbubbles are contributing
to a style of music made famous by late 70’s
early 80’s punk-rock. The production quality
may also remind you of this era. Chalk-full of “sex,
drugs, rock-n-roll” attitude, Frienemies
is reminiscent of such acts as The Misfits, Dead
Kennedy’s, Iggy Pop, and The International
Noise Conspiracy.
If you don’t pay attention while listening,
you may think the songs are ridiculously long.
Unfortunately, it’s because most of the
songs sound alike and run into each other, so
what you thought may be one really long song could
actually turn out to be two or three. There is
an occasional change-up and a song may catch you
by surprise, sounding nothing like its companion
songs.
With lyrics like “I’ll make your
momma cry” (track 9, “Song for Robert
Pollard”) and “I wanna six, six, sixty-nine”
(track 4, 6669), Deadbubbles may lean toward the
more morbid or macabre side of punk-rock as did
The Misfits. However with songs such as “Sparkle
Jets” (track 3) and “Rock Solid!”
(track 11), the band makes an immediate about-
face and causes the suspicion of identity crisis.
If nothing else, Deadbubbles’ Frienemies
will ask you to remember the once prominent genre
of what is now referred to as “old-school
(pre-pop) punk.”
www.deadbubbles.com
-Matty H., August 8, 2008
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