Recommended. If it wasn't evident enough on their trashy and glamorous debut, The Kiss Offs don't just LOVE rock and roll, they have a destructive, co-dependant relationship with the genre. They've recorded this album about, for, and because of ROCK. "Rock Bottom" directly addresses how ROCK has saved their otherwise mundane middle class lives, only to make those lives less livable because the band members are poor, unemployed, dirty, continuously intoxicated, willfully destructive and often sleeping on flo   [ read more ]

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It's hard to play the guitar with your heart on your sleeve. It keeps slipping out and hitting all the strings, making an awful racket not unlike the 14 songs on this new record. Go ahead & buy that beefy new amplifier, because this platter was meant to spin loud. The Kiss Offs are part garage, part new wave, & part post-punk, with energetic songs about trashy dates, peeping toms, desperation, & lost love, smothered in distortion and feedback. With this record you'll willingly ruin your hearing. It's noisy,   [ read more ]

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