Title: kinda lame attempt at something vaguely punk rock
Product review: Nerves show their influences plainly. Some songs are reminiscent of 60s garage bands, others of 70s punk, many on this album sound a lot like mid-80s Gun Club (from the "Mother Juno" period, not the bluesier Gun Club sound from "Fire of Love".) But they don't ever fuse these sounds together to form a style of their own, unless that style is simply to inject the music they play with an insipid blandness. The garage-ish songs sound like an anemic version of their 60s models. The punk-ish songs sound like watered-down punk, and the Gun Club-ish songs sound like lame out-takes from some justly forgotten Gun Club sessions. Maybe it's their producer's fault. But someone should tell them that this kind of music is supposed to ROCK and sound energetic. If it just goes through the motions it's not worth listening to.
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