Ever heard a group of thirty-year-old Maltese punks rocking out? Me neither, until now. Turns out they’re making a pretty decent racket—sounding at times like early Vindictives or, when they start rolling out their punk-infused ska/reggae stuff, Against All Authority, if either of those bands had to contend with kicking it out as a three piece. The bummer is, while the songs are generally good and all, they do have a tendency to drag on way longer than is necessary. Still, I could imagine (and one would hope, egads) that there’s not a huge ska-punk resurgence going on in Malta right now—it’s pretty clear that they’re not attempting to bring some cash cow to market and are playing this kind of stuff solely for the love of the music, and that carries a lot of weight around here. Decent outing of “Ring of Fire” as a hidden track.
–keith (Reciprocal)