Franky and the Slight Incline DCxPC Live, Vol. 46: Live at the Cave LP
Another DCxPC live release lands in the pile, and this is a pretty good one. FRANKY AND THE SLIGHT INCLINE careen through fifteen tracks recorded at Chapel Hill’s The Cave in 2024, and the sound quality is rough, but let’s be honest, nobody’s buying DCxPC recordings to pamper their precious audiophile ears. What you get is sloppy, zippy punk rock with lyrics that are mostly idiotic until they aren’t, the kind of dumb that occasionally winks at you and reveals that maybe there’s something sharper underneath. One minute they’re dropping a pretty, surfy instrumental interlude like they got confused about what’s happening, and the next they’re ripping through “Entfremdung,” an anti-consumerist rant, “Aus-ccent,” a gleeful hack job on Australian accents, or “Death Row Americano,” where it sounds like the singer (or singers?) got possessed by a committee of demons who can’t agree on whose voice is next. Spiritual descendants of the DIESEL QUEENS, maybe, with the same gift for making a mess sound like a party. The vocals are strong, the energy never dips, and the whole thing is a pretty good time.