The Fake Boys – This Is Where Our Songs Live

While The Fake Boys call themselves Pop Punk I choose to use dirty words out of my vocabulary while talking about them. To me Pop Punk is linked with overly sanitized, overly cute music that serves no purpose but to get the people playing it girlfriends. The Fake Boys are certainly melodic but their music and lyrics are also full of substance. In the tradition of Jawbreaker, the Buzzcocks, Avail, Naked Raygun, and early Lemonheads they create songs that are beautifully written but are delivered with an ugly emotional realism that speaks to the soul directly.

The most cutting song on "This Is Where Our Songs Live" is called "Logical Ape" and Jim Death's vocal performance is delivered with acid in his throat. The lyrics are equally potent and harsh, writing off the prescribed American dream, "Just sell the earth to stay ahead/And every cop's your fuckin' friend/Just like God is the end, not dirt." Other songs are just as cheery with titles like "I Wish I Was Dead," "Life Is Stupid," and "I Quit." The music ranges from being snappy to heavy and even dreary at times.  For anyone who has hard time finding music that is both tuneful and edgey The Fake Boys are the remedy.

Band MySpace: www.myspace.com/thefakeboys
 

 

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