CRAZY SPIRIT
Crazy Spirit will mindfuck you with their abrasive, inventive but still simple and catchy rock and fucking roll. This band is proving that the wild energy of punk is still capable of possessing the souls and bodies of a bunch of fucking kids with guitars and shit and turning them into raging monsters making a racket to peel the paint off the walls and the skin off a million pansy ass dilettantes and weak kneed posers. Four punx taking a basic rock and roll structure and a relentless 1-2, Crass meets Bone Awl on doodoocaca island drum beat and injecting it with with weirdly timed cymbal hits. The guitar squeals out classic simple riffs that somehow sound fresh and coalesce with each other in a thematic way throughout all the songs, and the bass slithers throughout the guitar lines, complementing melodies or lurking in the low end. Topping off this noise are slimy, snotty, sleazy vocals that unexpectedly bring to mind an even more crazed Sam McPheeters at his most unhinged and a wild stage performance. Honestly, I wish these guys weren't my friends so it doesn't seem like I'm sucking dicks for scene cred or some other such nonsense, but fuck it. Crazy Spirit rules.
POSTSCRIPT: Their demo is great cause you can hear the songs and shit and has really cool artwork etc, but it really pales in comparison to the real live spirit. It doesn't quite justify their sound cuz it's too quiet but is still a great document of a great band. If any of you cretins get a chance, pick it up.
