Undoubtedly, my least favorite part about a split seven-inch record is that, all too often, there\u2019s just one or two songs per band. Here we\u2019re treated to nine tunes here from Astoria, Oregon\u2019s The Dumpies and Vancouver, B.C.\u2019s Night Court, and it\u2019s some of the best modern punk that exists today.<\/p>\n
Night Court\u2019s side begins with the slightly off-kilter \u201cNot An Act(or)\u201d, where buzzing bass, crisp drums and plenty of raw, pop-fueled punk makes an impression in 90 seconds. The thumping and scrappy \u201cCellphone\u201d follows with no lack of melody amid the garage-rock spirit, and \u201c1,000,000th Song\u201d is a quick blast of dense guitars and hard-hitting drums alongside the harmonic singing. \u201cSexy God\u201d exits this half of the listen, a 23-second blast of bouncy and roughly recorded punk\u2019n\u2019roll that you can\u2019t fail to admire. <\/p>\n
The Dumpies make the most of their portion, too, which begins with the thick and firm, swirling ideas of \u201cBIG,\u201d which then goes into the lush melodies of the cute, jangly and warm \u201cEgg Timer.\u201d Next up, \u201cBisexual Hedgefund Manager\u201d gives us a burst of lively and animated garage-punk that\u2019s plenty harmonic. The setting then takes a dramatic turn with the fuzzed blast of rumbling, throaty hardcore that is \u201cHats,\u201d which clocks in at just 25 seconds. \u201cGobblers Knob,\u201d another great song title, exits the listen with a swift rhythm section and good balance between noise and tuneful songwriting.<\/p>\n
Both of these bands are fully versed in pop-punk, lo-fi bouts and garage-rock moments that are ideal for the fan who wants to hear something slightly different every minute or so. Toss in some eye-catching artwork, a picture of Richard Moll (Bull from TV’s Night Court<\/i>) and you’ve got six bucks very well spent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":35073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10994],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-46950","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-night-court-the-dumpies","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46950","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46950"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}