Fast Food Fairies
Can't Agree On Anything
(Koolbutt Records)
Because the Ramones are the gold standard, no one should kvetch that their battle strategy guides Quebec's FFF. Peculiarities abound: Abruptness, battering dynamics, Joeyesque voicings, a Mosrite, Pop seductions laced into aggressive song-volleys, "1-2-3-4s"...
But this is not rote duplication. While four shadows do obviously loom, these Canadian agitators shrewdly ensure their distinctive personalities exercise discretion over avenues taken; not to an overwhelming degree -- it would be counterintuitive to corrupt a sterling paragon -- but in manners subtly distinctive, still. Sporadic soloing evidences engaging particularity. Lyrics insinuate novel perspectives.
Too, no matter how rigorously one strives to adhere to a model's pattern, individuality makes itself apparent in dispatch. Here, winningly so.
Besides, when sparkling and hard-lashed mini-anthems fly past, group-harmonies buoyed by swerving buzzsaw chord-changes, every day is a sun-strobed beach party one and every night demands howling at the moon.
Recommended: "Fast Food Fairies," "I Wanna Be With You," "I Want You," "She Don't Know I Love Her So (I'm Afraid To Let Her Know)," "Yellow Brick Road," "Move Away," "She Wants More," "Her Mom's So Hott."
Video: (live, 13:40)
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