The real thing. They live the lives that we so wish we could, all night honky-tonks from the Lower East Side to the backwards backwoods of the steaming South.
Gaunt mixes melodic punk with super-loud raunch rock to produce something that’ll satisfy both your pop sweet tooth and your craving for darker, harder stuff.
Vancouver’s three queens of cuddle-core are back. Box of Hair is for fans of Runaways and the Muffs who are looking for more honesty in their sugar coating.
Had they stuck with it, they would be mentioned in the same breath as Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits, and Bold as fondly remembered straight-edge strongholds.
This is so-so So Cal skate thrash which attempts to pull off a genuine early ’80s hardcore blur, but ends up sounding like a sped-up version of the Offspring.