SUNPOWER / CHEAP DRUGS: Split: 7”

Aug 02, 2017

Both sides deliver razor slices of traditional punk stylings. Sunpower brings some fast, upbeat swagger, some boppin’ pub rock riffs (“Total Hate Song” chops into “Banned from the Pubs” territory), and a singer raging at you somewhere between Jello and Joey Vindictive’s registers, with a touch of Duane Peters lilt. Cheap Drugs takes it down a darker path; the music evoking the spirit I find captured in the photos of Slug and Lettuce: black and white, action- and anger-packed, sweaty and sincere. Best lyric: “Burn the barriers, Cut the fences, No Border control, Let them in.” –Matt Seward (Spastic Fantastic, spasticfantastic.de)

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