Ok, I am guilty of judging a book by its cover here... Angel Du$t sounds
like either a god awful mainstream plastic hip hop / rap group / artist
or a screamy awful metal / hardcore band... A bit further investigation
shows that this a "super group" of sorts with lead singer Justice Tripp
being best-known as the frontman for Baltimore bruisers Trapped Under
Ice, one of the most influential hardcore bands of the past 15-20 years.
Other members also play in fellow Baltimore hardcore wreckers
Turnstile. Not my thing.
Then I saw somebody post about them and
it appeared all might be be as expected... They don’t make hardcore.
Instead, the band plays around with pop-punk, with power-pop, and with
classic rock. They play acoustic guitars and sometimes harmonicas.
Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland last
year they released the excellent album Pretty Buff. This week
they’ve followed it up by dropping the new three-song EP Lil House. The band recorded the EP with Elliott Smith/Beck
producer Rob Schnapf, and its three songs that represent probably their
poppiest tracks yet. These are catchy, peppy, uptempo pop-rock songs
with zero detectable hardcore influence, and it’s not hard to imagine
them ending up in alt-rock radio rotation or soundtracking commercials.
I
was going to go with the lead single Never Ending Game, but I think I
prefer the opening track Turn Off The Guitar. I think it kinda has a
Bloc Party sound to it? May be just me, but it is a great summer indie
pop type track.
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