EVERYTHING SUCKS: We Suck So You Don’t Have to: 7” flexi

Nov 17, 2011

Looks like modern pop punk from the front cover and shitty throwaway hardcore from the back. Sounds like post-hardcore with the spoken vocals and occasional bursts of yelling thing. First song seems to be about how things suck when you’re older because of money. I can’t say that they are wrong wholesale, but there’s more to it than that. I would have to say that the other song is about how people shouldn’t be righteous about what they do or what they own because that’s not who they are. That first point seems to require that you are apart from (at least some of) your actions and experiences. I can’t buy that. While I agree that possessions don’t make a person, they seem to be an upshot of one’s desires. Are our desires not an integral part of who we are? Now, the question of whether we should act righteously for any reason is another is something different. The sound is kind of attractive, but the lyrics turn me off.

 –Vincent (justaaudial.net)

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