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- Artist: The Aquabats
- Album: Charge!
- Label: Nitro
- Year of Release: 2005
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- Reviewed by: patchen on 2005-07-14
RecommendThis is nerdy math rock for those pining away for the days when Danny Elfman wrote rock music, not soundtracks. They must be out there: the members of the Aquabats certainly found in each other musicians dedicated to reminding folks of the glory days of dorky early 1980's LA herky-quirkiness.
The Aquabats started out as a 14 piece ska band, but seem to have lost the lessons learned in that hardcore, rhythm-heavy genre. Here, all the songs run together at a geeky, jagged and retro-in the worst way pace; this sounds like outtakes from a Square Pegs soundtrack. What impresses is not nostalgia, or a fresh take on an old genre, but fairly obvious takes on a genre that, aside from Devo, didn't have much meat to it anyway. They dress in costumes and masks to boot. For fans of Science Teacher humor only.
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