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The Post Office Gals play a newer style of grindcore you're apt to hear in newer wave frontrunners like the Locust and Daughters. This means short and screamy, minute-long bursts of body spasms that owe more to punk than the type of death metal nearly interchangeable with the style. So while you won't find ultra low, from-the-pits-of-hell bellowing and metaphors for society's decay, you will hear those same hyperactively scaling guitars and see plenty of cheeky, pop culture-referencing long song titles ("Right Click My Heart Save as 'Broken,'" "So Many Issues of Teen People, So Little Time to Masturbate").

On second thought, the POGs are hardly restricted within grind's boundaries. There's a distinctly liberal use of keyboards; sure, the aforementioned Locust are supporters of the instrument, but POGs' technique makes sure they're loud and prominent in the mix, and generally wacky throughout, not to mention absolutely relentless. It also acts as the band's crutch, as they're usually bouncing along paces unusually slow for the genre, especially in the drums, but that's okay, as it gives the band some originality.

POGs' lyrics are hilariously lazy, as well. It's not that this is actually an issue, as with this genre the indecipherable, scratchy roar of the vocalist usually renders them useless, but it's still funny to observe. One song narrates "the only thing that's lame is your fucking goblin cock dangling like bastard Tootsie roll / Haley never saw it coming / dude that was god damn priceless." Another? "GO TEAM!" repeated twice, more or less. There's some honest, simple and pissed off if not intellectually lacking diatribes scattered about though; "You know, these god damn God-loving people have too much faith in 'the guy upstairs' / Think on your own! / The preaching priest is only there to collect your money! / But hey, if you wanna join the false belief club, go ahead, it ain't my life."

Esbeohdes is an utterly tongue-in-cheek, 13-minute display of messing with the rules of an already lawless style, and what it results in is a deliciously messy, chaotic carnival.

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Esbehodes

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Right Click My Heart Save as "Broken"
The Bitter Irony of the Miss Teen New Jersey Pagent [sic]
Good I'm Glad



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    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at 5:06 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    just buy the cd and fight about it later

    Posted by givemeamuseumandillfillit on 2006-02-24 04:50:24
    My Score:

    I've never said that the locust were an original band. Who the hell cares about originality anyways? If it's good, it's good, no matter if it's been done before or not.

    Will, i like man is the bastard as much as you, but to say they _created_ powerviolence has to be a joke.

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 3:48 PM (EST)

    Well, exactly. It's become a terrible trend.

    On the otherhand, people who say shit like "I HATE THESE BANDS THAT USE WEIRD INSTRUMENTS! THIS IS NOT REAL HARDCORE" obviously don't know what they're talking about. The Locust are hardly original.

    A little band called Man Is the Bastard created power violence way back, and they had two bassists and were just as experimental as they were fast and thrashing/slow and crushing.

    -Will

    Posted by givemeamuseumandillfillit on 2006-02-23 05:06:49

    And to clarify, my dissapointment in everyone ragging on this kind of stuff is because just a year ago there were very few negative comments about bands like this.

    Posted by givemeamuseumandillfillit on 2006-02-23 05:05:07

    What's with most users on here ragging on everything that sounds like this?

    This band is pretty fucking great, If you have a problem with their music, you're the one taking it too seriously, because i'm surely not. This has nothing to do with being "artsy" what so ever, it's just balls out, catchy, spazzy music. I consider this to be pop music.

    If you don't like it, fine, but don't assume that everybody who does is a hipster who takes everything too seriously, because you're the ones who're guilty of that.

    Posted by xote on 2006-02-23 02:27:48

    there are people that listen to this some people like that shit

    Posted by fox82 on 2006-02-22 22:31:32
    My Score:

    They don't; they just say they do in front of their hipster/fringeXcore friends to look more underground and more of a prick.

    Posted by the_other_scott on 2006-02-22 20:25:47

    how the fuck do people enjoy this shit?

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 6:56 PM (EST)

    No, I'm definitely not religeous, but I do recognize the potential good churches can do. And yeah, they can do a shitload of bad, too... But there's more to the issue than what the band addressed. Those lyrics are cliche and stupid. It's like if I was talking to a 14 year old Slipknot kid about religion.

    -Will

    Posted by SilentStorms on 2006-02-22 17:15:08
    My Score:

    Will, please don't tell me you're religious. I've posted enough on this review.

    Old Dave Man Norman Gloom

    Posted by xote on 2006-02-22 04:45:19

    those lyrics were pretty bad at least locust, daughters, an albatross, other bands of the sort have lyrics that are at least intresting to read

    Posted by xote on 2006-02-22 04:42:05
    My Score:

    I normally really like bands like these guys... but they seem just alright maybe it'll grow on me

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 12:33 AM (EST)

    "Wacky" grind can eat a bag of dicks. This artsy emo/grind shit is the new 3rd wave ska.

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 12:31 AM (EST)

    I think it was Wells Tipley who came up with the famous punk equation: Your punkness is a positive relationship with the amount of time you spend at the post office.

    -Ken

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 10:17 PM (EST)

    It's good that one of these bands has finally found something to say, even if it does reveal how stupid they are. I guess that's punk rock, though.

    -Will

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 8:34 PM (EST)

    I see some comparison to an albatross but these kids seem to be more chaotic. More of a rush. I like it

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 6:56 PM (EST)

    i second the "not as good An Albatross" comment. An Albaatross fucking slay.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 3:53 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    CD comes with a FREE SHIRT ON INTERPUNK.
    only 9.25..its a deal

    Posted by SilentStorms on 2006-02-21 14:59:29
    My Score:

    Lame but not neccessarily untrue. These guys sound a lot like An Albatross, but not as good.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 10:29 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    this band is sick. their guitarist uses something like 15 pedals. i think they're doing some dates down south w/ the new Liars band. so good

    Posted by danperrone on 2006-02-21 09:05:37

    that is really, really lame commentary on religion

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 2:42 AM (EST)

    Aren't these gals going to run into the same kinda legal problems The Postal Service did?

    Posted by etwiels88 on 2006-02-21 01:39:39
    My Score:

    My friend is all about these dudes. Saw them with Circle Takes The Square a few weeks back and they were kinda just annoying.

    Score is for the cute keyboardist though.

    Posted by givemeamuseumandillfillit on 2006-02-21 01:38:49
    My Score:

    I love this cd. I actually put it on #2 on my top 2005 even though it wasn't released. I love this one, it's plagiralism, but who cares? It's funny.

    Posted by TheOneTrueBill on 2006-02-21 01:25:21

    Before I listen to this, does this have the ultra pingy drum sound? If so, I'm not going to even bother listening to the MP3s. You said it doesn't have cookie monster growling so that's one strike against, and if they have that annoying as shit drum sound then they're not worth my time.

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