Automatic Lovers Boston Brats / Who Cares If Tomorrow Comes 7″
Punks from Madrid, singing about punks from Boston. Named after a VIBRATORS song, sounds like a DAMNED song. By this point, you probably already get the picture, but to spell it out anyway, these two tracks offer up classic UK punk sounds that are well-studied without sounding trite; AUTOMATIC LOVERS know what they like, but they don’t have it by rote. Both tracks here are high-energy, with maximalism happy to creep in—the piano chords banging along on the chorus of “Boston Brats” want to hide in the background, but they make so much sense that you can almost feel them more than hear them—and the B-side is a fantastic cover of ’80s punk band KIRK AND THE JERKS.