Loud, fast, and hooks a-plenty. That could very well be the extent of what I say about Male Bonding and their first full-length Nothing Hurts. It certainly fits and covers all the bases, albeit in a compressed way. But to write these guys off as just another Japandroids/No Age rip-off would be doing them a disservice. Sure the comparisons are apt, if a bit limiting, but the fire in these guys push their act past simple plagiarism and into a steroidal Nirvana/Black Flag reverential offering. Of course the music itself can be traced back through punk rock's lineage. And it's here that the comparisons begin to make sense. Male Bonding have more in common with punk bands like X-ray Spex or Rich Boys than with their currently assigned genre associates. There is a sense of playfulness that sets this music apart from so much of the pop-punking indie music that passes for LOUD these days. So, sit back, open the windows, and turn it up to 11.
Tracklisting:
01. Years Not Long (listen to the mp3 below)
02. All Things This Way
03. Your Contact
04. Weird Feelings
05. Franklin
06. Crooked Scene
07. T.U.F.F.
08. Nothing Remains
09. Nothing Used To Hurt
10. Pirate Key
11. Paradise Vendors
12. Pumpkin
13. Worse To Come
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