Metti su il vinile, prendi una birra e mettiti comodo sul divano.. non avrai nemmeno il tempo di iniziare a guardare il foglietto che ti ritroverai una mazzata in faccia con Never been caught. E che pensi, sarà così per tutto il disco con pezzoni clamorosi come Total juice head, Chicks dig the longball, Bleacher Creature Girl , The ballad of Rey Ordoñez ecc. interrotti soltanto da Night bus home to you a voler spezzare il ritmo incalzante e farci prendere un po’ di fiato.
In una marea di band del midwest-barbacore che non mi dicono proprio nulla questi ragazzi di Vancouver (faccio anche promozione turistica,città fantastica. Da visitare) mi hanno letteralmente entusiasmato, dandomi letteralmente linfa vitale.
Non ho mai visto una partita di baseball, non l’ho mai seguito e non ho mai capito nemmeno mezza regola, ma sti ragazzi sono riusciti nell’impresa di farmi almeno incuriosire.
Here is one of the record that I waited anxiously and gave me a nice shot in the arm.
I follow the Isotopes since a couple of years when I heard by chance a few tracks on bandcamp. Not so well recorded, but that definitely put the band in a good light under the category “band to follow with high interest” So before the last summer, the new album Nuclear Strikezone is finally out.
What to say? AWESOME! Do you love the
Ramones? Are you fan of
Riverdales and
Dickies? Are you a Simpson-addicted (easy to recognize references) and a baseball fan? This band is definitely for you!
Put on vinyl, grab a beer and sit on the couch .. you will not even have time to start looking at the lyrics sheet that you will get a baseball bat in the face with
Never been caught. And will be the same for all the tracks like
Total juice head, Chicks dig the longball, Bleacher Creatures Girl, The ballad of Rey Ordoñez etc. interrupted just by
Night bus home to you to break up the pace and get us a bit ‘of breath.
In a lot of bands in the midwest-beardcore that totally leave indifferent these guys from Vancouver (I also promote tourism, great city to visit) I was excited about how, giving me literally lifeblood.
I have never seen a baseball game, I never followed and I’ll never understand this sport but these guys have succeeded in to make me curious about at least.
You definitely need to pick up a copy of Nuclear Strikezone and I’m pretty sure they will be in my personal podium at the end of 2015.
Striped still has a few copies, in case you can contact the band, or their label Stomp Records who took care of the record. Isotopes Go, Go!