It’s not often I dock an album in its final rating for a hidden
\ntrack; usually I just go online and complain about what a stupid
\npractice this is.<\/p>\n
But in the case of Supafuzz’s self-titled debut album, the
\n“bonus” track (and I use that term loosely) that follows “Joke” is
\nthe biggest waste of time since I received The Jerky Boys in the
\nmail. How bad was it? This is the first time in the history of “The
\nDaily Vault” that I didn’t bother finishing the track.<\/p>\n
Following up what turned out to be a surprisingly solid album of
\nalternative-flavored rock with a series of prank phone calls… I
\nswear, I don’t know who thinks this is funny. True story: when I
\nused to moderate a high school newspaper, the kids I mentored
\nthought the Jerky Boys were so big and funny. I asked them, “What
\nwould you do if someone prank-called you?”<\/p>\n
Their response: “I’d kick their ass”… which proved my point
\nthat this stuff isn’t funny, especially if it’s happening to you.
\nIt made them think for a minute.<\/p>\n
Why this trio – vocalist\/guitarist David Angstrom, bassist Dean
\nSmith and drummer Chris Leathers – would mess up an otherwise solid
\nalbum is beyond me. They bashed out over the course of 50 minutes
\nsome solid efforts (especially from a newcomer to the scene).
\nTracks like “Mr. Policeman,” “Pretty Blank Page” and the title
\ntrack show that this band has something behind it, and with the
\nright breaks could make it to the big-time. (They’re no less
\ndeserving in that regard than some of the sewage I’ve heard from
\nthe genre over the last few years.)<\/p>\n
Musically, Supafuzz is a solid unit. In the category of
\nsongwriting, they’re also solid. The only drawback I found in their
\nmusic is that the energy seemed to dip near the halfway point,
\nblurring tracks like “Long Way Home” and “You Don’t Even Know
\nMe…” together, even after multiple listenings. This, however, is
\na problem that is corrected through the passage of time, and I have
\nno doubts that Supafuzz could overcome this one obstacle.<\/p>\n
Had it not been for the incredible waste of time that makes up
\ntrack 15 (and five minutes of it is dead air, for Crissake – who
\nthinks this stuff up?!?), I’d have been inclined to give
\nSupafuzz<\/i> a “B”. To use a football analogy, the band
\nunfortunately fumbled the ball just before they made it to the end
\nzone. Some advice, guys: Don’t make the same mistake twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6642],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-38706","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-supafuzz","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38706"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=38706"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=38706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}