Buzz

Sound DNA

• Punk
• Punk Rock

• distorted
• defiant
• punky

About

Jeff Ott and Fifteen tone down the political mewling on "I Keep on Trying," the fifth track from Fifteen's Buzz, and the song benefits greatly. It's not that Ott's standard, "message" material is overly snide or wrong-headed, it's just that all of the manifestos tend to overpower Fifteen's very listenable pop-punk. It's one thing when the screams of underclass betrayal and environmental retribution are accompanied by an equally aggressive hardcore noise, but Fifteen's tempered delivery amounts to a mismatch of sorts. Despite these textural mismatches, there are still enough good performances to warrant a general recommendation. The opener, "World Starvation," .

via Last.fm

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