"Arthur Gadney" <a_gadney@hotmail.com> wrote:

Any comments on the new Most album "Most Most"? It's a bit strange that they insist on calling it "punk" music, right down to the song titles on the new one, because it fits the term about as well as Blondie or Patti Smith do. That's probably a fair comparison, too, as all three bands are a bit past the point, age-wise, where they can crush your skull non-stop for an hour, and maturity-wise, where they'd want to. There are some throat-shredding tracks on the first Most album that show off exactly how raw Phew can sound (which I welcome after years and years of murmuring on her other records), and the instrumental half of the band can back that up just fine, but most of the time it's all reined in just enough that it sounds focused and deadly. Honestly, I love the new disc, but it's too *competent* to really call it punk. "Damned good, tough rock music" works equally well as a description.

-me