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JJ Aad The A’s – “Rhetoric of Trash” LP
The first full-length for this Danish trio and it’s a crazy-good example of fresh faced modern punk. Does anyone remember that EP by CCTV? This is just as fabarooney, only here you get more songs and a bigger production. I would like to also draw a direct comparison to what the excellent Sex Germs are up to right now: fast, frantic, herky-jerky punk, with plenty of outrider influences some of which can be surprisingly melodic. Some manic synthetic keyboard tuneage adds to that whole synopsis. I’ve slept on these guys – not literally, that would be very uncomfortable, especially for them. But how dozy am I? – and there are two 7″ EPs that preceded this album; I partly blame La Vida Es Un Mus for just being so damn prolific, banging-out one fantastic global punk rock smasher faster than a same person can keep-up. But mostly I blame myself. I should embrace a little more insanity, especially when it sounds as triumphantly great as this.
