The Plane Crash Too Little Too Late EP
The aspiration here is to make nostalgic, gritty rock’n’roll, but there’s something charmingly off-kilter about the presentation that makes it more than just a pale shade of something we’ve all heard before. Mark Death’s vocals have that sort of monotone sociopathy to them, while the guitar has a direct-in compression that gives everything a sort of detachedness that manages to elevate the tightly-written material from “JOHNNY THUNDERS knock-off” to something much more odd and a hell of a lot of fun. There’s a meager few tracks here to sink your teeth into, but the hand-hewn quality (see also: the horrorcore high school notebook cover art) makes it worth your time.