The Weirdolls Almost Unbreakable Toys LP
As with a lot of power pop, here’s a band that’s not necessarily doing anything wrong, but there’s just scenes missing that keep this from being a movie. Mining New York’s ripe ’70s era, these contemporary Italians are just a little too precious and clean-cut. The songwriting is solid, but there’s little to no danger in the proceedings. New York was scary in the ’70s, and that’s something you heard in the music. I’m sure there’s plenty in present-day Italy to write songs about, but this looking backward just fails to land on a human level. It feels like the image the album cover presents, which is a group of collectible figures left in the box and never played with.