Bomb The Music Industry!
Adults!!!... Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!!
Quote Unquote Records (2010)
why you'll love it - Brutally honest ska-punk songs about growing up
why you'll hate it - lyrical content is stale
This may be songwriter, Jeff Rosenstock's intent, but Bomb The Music Industry! is starting to bum me out. Sarcastically riddled with exclamation points, Adults!!!... Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! is one hell of an album title. It brings a smile to my face, but Jeff's now well told autobiography of getting older, poorer, and more burnt out is starting to come off as depressingly repetitive.
On an individual basis, these ska-punk songs are enjoyable, but the anxious feeling of desperation grows thick - like being stuck in one of those "HEY BRO EVERYTHING'S GREAT!" conversations with an old friend or relative that's fallen on hard times. Not that Jeff's trying to hide anything. His no nonsense delivery is a strong attribute. There are other facets of life he can exploit though. There is a fleeting moment in the second to last song of EP. A positive "I'll do my very best" resolution; but that is quickly met with the final track, "Struggler", where Rosenstock desperately growls "I'm not gonna change."
Listen, we all grow old. I'm being generous in estimating about 5% of us are lucky enough to comfortably live doing what makes us happy in a society that respects us. It is good to acknowledge this reality every once and a while, but I think BTMI!'s got all the blood out of this stone it can muster. I get it - you write what you know, but if Jeff is content to chisel out his own tombstone before he's 30, it seems like great a waste of this band. He's got this genre locked down, and can do anything with it. Let's hear something else.
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