Chin Strap – Better Late Than Never – Review

Chin Strap

Better Late Than Never (Plasma)
by Sheril Stanford

With this release, Chin Strap does some serious style-surfing. While the tunes on this four-song cassette are uniformly clean, simple and witty, they cover a lot of stylistic territory, with influences all over the map. The assortment includes “Are We There Yet?,” a song that could be described as anthemic-rock-and-roll-meets-Zappa, “Wet Spot,” straight-out-of-Chicago-style blues and “Mahkeezuhoonozeware,” which is almost metallish, but its hard feel s tempered by the fluff lyrics about lost keys (Mah-keez-u-hoo-noze-ware, get it?). Amusing and not boring – a good just-for-the-fun-of-it addition to your collection.