The Fects Rocket to Ruin LP
What is happening? Am I currently facedown at Gonerfest with a HELLACOPTERS and HOOKERS bastard love child band playing songs over me, while in between songs, they turn me on my side to make sure I don’t aspirate on my own puke. The FECTS’ Rocket to Ruin is a non-stop party record, without calling it a party record. Around track five (“Topic”), about sitting in a room listening to the radio and trying to tape songs, it made me think these folks are as old as me. It was a crazy time when you had to actually physically move to find a sound. I would drive my grandma’s car 70 miles to pick up MRR’s radio show from a college station. My favorite thing about this record and the THE FECTS is the fact it sounds 100% natural. If you put these folks in a room and told them to make a record that sounds like metal-math-emo-hard-egg-synth-goth-ska-pop, they would come out of the room, looking up at you doe-eyed, and they’d ask, “Is this right?” And it would be this record, because this is what they do and they do it perfectly.