Already Dead

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Already Dead I Think It’s Time to Leave EP

ALREADY DEAD, to my ears, has traveled some distance since their Something Like War CD, and has constructed a solid and more powerful sound. At first, these five tunes might be blown off as commonplace meat-and-potatoes punk tunes, but they are not that at all. The songs on I Think It’s Time to Leave are centered thematically around everyday struggles, like fucking hating work, all presented in an anthemic and robust aural attack. This style of punk usually leans toward a lot of beer drinking until blackout and nihilism, but ALREADY DEAD put thought into what they are trying to say. Parts of this certainly fall into the Rad Girlfriend Records camp of bands like RAGING NATHANS and the DOPAMINES. However, ALREADY DEAD can stand just as easily on their own. This is a very refreshing second physical release.

Already Dead Something Like a War CD

The first track starts off musically similar to a SOCIAL DISTORTION tune, while vocally, it has a street punk Oi! vibe. This is fine USA-styled blue collar Oi! with a little HOT WATER MUSIC and most of the No Idea Records catalog in a blender. I hear some mid-period DWARVES and Dave Hause influence as well. They have been a band for five years and have consistently put out this working class flavor of driving street punk and singing on the downstrokes. The CD has fourteen songs, some are shorter and some are longer. I think that if these folks were forced into a room for three days to write ten songs, throw all ten in the trash, and repeat this until they have written and garbage-binned thirty songs, that the next ten songs we hear could be the kind of record that inspires. That next record could be on a best of the decade(s) list, but this record, even with its memorable chunks, still has the feeling of a reporter talking about observable events, whereas they could be the stroke that makes the spectator take action, or whatever.