Timeout Room – Celebration Station
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Here we are again inside Timeout Room. Inside the lo-fi tape hiss, and lyrical odes to fallen bodies & future Fun Fridays, where dead flies in the ointment hang. Where any amalgamation of the words post, punk, power, and pop does a pretty solid job of describing the vibe. Post-punk, power-pop, punk-pop. Post-pop? Sure, why not.
Think Guided by Voices in their prime lo-fi era, with Wire’s cool detachment somehow coupled with a breezy bubblegum pop playfulness. Add Alex Chilton and Bob Mould’s keen sense of melody, with the energy of Ramones, and you’ve got things fairly well mapped out.
For this voyage, Captain S.T. McCrary enlists the aid of the T.O.R. Rock ‘n’ Roll Fleet to achieve maximum rock ‘n’ roll effect. No better example of such can be heard than on “Don’t You Feel Better Off?” which features a blisteringly ripping guitar solo from Stevie Spring (the brains and brawn behind New Orleans eggy prog-punk outfit STEEF).
But with the amplified rock action also comes a further refinement of both sound and lyrical depth. The silliness isn’t gone (and you’d be a fucking dumbass to miss a day of class at Mrs. McClintock’s School of Fucking Drums), but a somber, pensive undercurrent runs through the joyful melodicism on tracks like “Thankless Thursday” and “All Away (Wack for That).”
Celebration Station is a destination where contradictions meet. Whether you’re looking to work, rock and roll, feel, be numb, reach a higher plain, get broke, run in the rain, be someone, or just listen to the radio every day and night, Celebration Station has the most ways to play. -Randy Faucheux
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