It's been yet another bummer of a week, and I know I haven't provided you with much since MM, but hopefully this lil' reel will tide you over until tomorrow. Not sure where I acquired this
Shrubs cassette, but clocking in at a half hour with a solid ten (or arguably eleven) tunes, it's definitely more in line with an album than a demo. Hailing from downstate New York, or thereabouts this trio had a jones for no frills riff-pop, settling on a mid-tempo clip, not overtly resembling anyone in particular. The aptitude is pedestrian, but earnest and occasionally a tad wry. The two-minute, "Never Go Back" possesses plenty of punch, and while little else on
Somebody's Watching can compete with it's pace this tape bears at least a few repeated listenings. Said affair closes out with an unlisted, insurgent 46-second hardcore-punk throwdown, out of character with everything preceding it.
01. Hail Mary
02. Never Go Back
03. Memorial Day Poppies
04. Things We Could Have Been
05. Space Threat
06. Lover
07. Time Fades
08. Born Too Soon
09. Underground
10. I Don't Know
11. unlisted mock hardcore song
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