Album Reviews
The Drolls is what happens when Denny and Josh from Seattle pop-punks Sicko get together with Julie D from Guest Directors and Chinchilla fame to bang out some short but sweet songs that linger between power pop and pop-punk. None of the songs on ‘That Puget Sound’ (no relation to AFI guitarist Jade Puget as far as I can tell) sound overthought or overcomplicated and as a result, these tracks are even more fun than reading about some anti-vaxxer’s latest conspiracy theory on Twitter.
While it would be cutting The Drolls down short to simply compare them to Sicko, I think it’s fair to say that if you liked the late Seattle pop-punk darlings as well as Superchunk (‘Sad Little King’ especially), you will definitely dig ‘That Puget Sound’. Expect 12 catchy, jangly, hook-laden tunes that like a conversation with a good friend, deal with everything from aging and wasting time to the environment and political bullshit. And just for giggles, they threw in a cover of Sicko’s ‘Rehashed’, which they dubbed ‘Rehashed, Rehashed’.
That Puget Sound track list:
- Getting Old
- Nobody Move
- Sad Little King
- Mythology
- Worse Things
- Alternate Timeline
- Downstream
- Rehashed- Rehashed
- Bad Ear
- Before The Fall
- So Many Red Flags
- Follow That Dinosaur
- In A Big Country
Lacking the talent to actually play in a band, Tom decided he would write about bands instead. Turns out his writing skills are mediocre at best as well.
