“I
got the message long before you said you knew.
There was no chance of us at all…..
So we were an accident you’ll always be my favourite
one. ”
There is a shock in store for the
punk listener in ‘Boombox
Generation’ which shares the same opening riff as Shed
Seven’s ‘She Left Me on Friday’. This coupled
with Avril Lavigne and Good Charlotte affiliating themselves
with modern punk that is so popular in the UK, is enough
to make John Lydon flee the country, if he hadn’t already
done so. Although, after the initial shock the track does
turn into a bouncy pop punk tune, which describes the predicament
of so many of the Boombox Generation’:
‘Stuck in the middle between
what is and what might be’
The remainder of
the debut contains fast singing, upbeat instrumentals and
quirky lyrics covering
things becoming
a super hero in ‘Capital H’, the theme of indecision
rears it’s ugly head again in ‘The Future Freaks
Me Out’. All in all, it is a promising debut, although
whether it is enough to make them anything more than
an extra in stage of life is another matter?
David Adair
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