UNFORTUNATE BASTARD, THE: Hobo Circus: CD

Aug 02, 2017

Acoustic tunes from San Francisco area “busker punks.” It tends to avoid the normal pitfalls of the whole “folk punk” thing with good songs and good collaborators including Knox (The Vibrators), Cinder Block (Tilt), Dave Dictor (MDC) and Blag Dahlia (Dwarves), among others. From the opening acoustic strums, I was in the mindset that I was going to be bored and/or hate this but I quickly switched gears. These songs are engaging and rather than the background music that this style usually falls into for me, I was fully rapt, waiting to hear what the next song would bring. This album is a hidden gem that I wouldn’t have heard otherwise. I like that. –Ty Stranglehold (Die Laughing, dielaughingrecords.com)

 

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