12 Rods
Separation Anxieties
V2
From alternative rock to slight lounge swing, to David Lynch jazz sounds. Sometimes the lyrics are a bit too silly, in that I-want-to-be-hip-and-clever way. Sometimes the music goes straight for some demented Japanese-pop thing, only to go bouncing back into that hard-edge Barenaked Ladies-meets-the Dead Milkmen kind of thing. The hooks are good, but the album isn’t solid, and sometimes the point gets lost.
V2 Records, 14 East 4th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10012
