The Side Eyes - So Sick (2017) [FLAC] {In The Red Recordings ITR312}
Release Info:
RLSDATE: 2021/11/01 RTLDATE: 2017/08/25
GENRE: Punk Rock FORMAT: FLAC 1.3.3
RiPPER: Exact Audio Copy 1.5 Size: 203 MB
SOURCE: CD RUNTiME: 24:53
RELEASE: In The Red Recordings ITR312
ORiGiN: USA MATRiX: CD 204-399 ITR312 THE SIDE EYE REVOLVER/CA
with log/cue/nfo/m3u/sfv/300 dpi scans.
Official label bio. . .
The debut album on In the Red Records by Southern California punk
quartet the Side Eyes raises interesting questions about nature
versus nurture - the eternal scientific debate about whether a
human being's personality is predetermined by genetics or whether
it's actually shaped by the environment one grows up in.
The Side Eyes' lead singer, Astrid McDonald, is a fascinating test
case. The 22-year-old Angeleno is the real-wild-child daughter of
Go-Go's guitarist-songwriter Charlotte Caffey and Redd Kross singer-
guitarist Jeff McDonald. How much has Astrid's notoriously fiery
onstage presence been influenced by basic heredity and how much was
her personality inspired by being raised by two legendary punk-pop
icons?
Similarly, how did growing up together as brothers in New Jersey
affect the hard-driving musical attack of 22-year-old guitarist
Kevin Devine and 20-year-old bassist Chris Devine? Much of rock
history has been fueled by the unique familial dynamics and sibling
rivalries of brothers in bands, from the Everly Brothers and the
Kinks' Ray and Dave Davies to Redd Kross' Jeff and Steven McDonald.
When the two Devines' aggressive approach is combined with 23-year-
old San Diego native Nick Arnold's remorselessly throttling
drumming, the Side Eyes end up as a powerfully controlled punk rock
machine that actually blows past the sonic barriers of their past
inspirations.
Produced by Steven McDonald, the Side Eyes' debut album is a
collection of 12 short, fast and punchy punk rock anthems. Astrid
McDonald is hardly a shrinking violet as she rails about life's
tribulations, spitting out her lyrics with a bratty defiance while
still retaining hints of a serenely melodic poise. After drummer
Nick Arnold, bassist Chris Devine and guitarist Kevin Devine lay
down the ominous metallic intro on the record's opening track, "I
Hate Dates," Astrid rants about the horrors of modern dating while
the rest of the band switches to a brutal hardcore punk tempo.
She's even more pointed on "Cat Call," casting a baleful glare at
creepy guys who harass her in public. "You think that you can
whistle at me," McDonald intones in a chilling voice. "Just 'cause
I'm cute, and I'm walking down the street/I'm not looking to be your
doll/I don't want to hear your stupid cat call!" The band slows down
briefly for a sullen hard-rock groove to allow her words to sink in
before the song switches back into a liberating blast of pure
hardcore anger.
Even with such a rich musical heritage, Astrid McDonald doesn't
really sound much like either of her parents on the new album.
Although there are traces of the early Redd Kross' primal punk rock
and the Go-Go's' prototypical pop-punk, the Side Eyes tend to play
faster and harder than either of those groups, with more of a
hardcore pace as Astrid bares her soul with a hell of a lot more
raw passion and unfiltered anger.
McDonald is clearly a singer who doesn't suffer fools gladly. She
turns her withering gaze upon a series of distractions and foolish
annoyances, from her various rivals ("Teenage Jerks") and other
assorted losers ("Dead End Boy") to the perils of formal education
("I Don't Want to Go to School").
But McDonald isn't all about anger. She rhapsodizes over "a man who
can who can dress like a chick: on the gender-bent valentine "Guy/
Chick," as the rest of the group slams out a surging landslide of
distortion. "I feel alive when he looks at me ... I want a man who
can be a girl," she screams as Kevin Devine buries her pleas with
quick, florid garlands of lead-guitar noise. Kevin Devine teases
further with hints of jangling garage-rock guitar on "Please Float
Away," as McDonald's vocals hover dreamily before the song is swept
away in another tide of thick grunge power chords.
The album closes with "Don't Talk to Me," a cover song that was
released on In the Red Records in 2016 as part of the Side Eyes'
split 7-inch single with Redd Kross, "Songs That Chargo Taught Us."
The seedily disturbing burst was written by Astrid's mother,
Charlotte 'Chargo' Caffey, when she was in the late-1970s L.A. punk
trio The Eyes, and it's given a ferocious makeover by The Side Eyes.
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