Here's yet another slab of vintage wax that I honestly can't recall acquiring - not that I'm complaining. I do have some modest complaints with the music enshrined within however, 99% of which I can attribute to
Intra Muros' primary mouthpiece,
Julie Willing, whose attempted Siouxsie Sioux impersonation frequently escalates to those pesky operatic trills that really grate on my nerves. Thankfully she functions at a more modest keel on a decent portion of
Parmesan, alongside her three male compatriots. The Muros were through-and-through post punk, Anglo-indebted as all-get-out, with signposts pointing squarely not only to Siouxsie but early Cure. Furthermore, I'll be darned if guitarist
John Broderick and bass plucker
Mark Romero didn't purloin a morsel or two from New Order focal points Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook. In spite of
Parmesan's, not so cheesy goth-y aplomb, a few anomalies like "President Jim" and "The Future" sidestep this motif revealing that this Huntington Beach, CA crew had some insight into what was transpiring on their own side of the pond. Cool.
01. 33 RPM
02. Manifest Destiny
03. 269 Birds
04. Flag
05. Within the Walls
06. Fear
07. President Jim
08. Too Much Sun
09. The Future
Hear
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