The Socialists: Let’s Start A Fucking Revolution

CD: Let’s Start A Fucking Revolution EP (2010, Brown Bag Propaganda)

by M. Alberto Rivera

The Socialists musically look backwards to 1979 and work it better than most. Young and energized, The Socialists are still in high school and not yet tired of a what is now a seriously taxed musical style. Trying to count the stylistic mimics spawned by the first generation of punks is like trying count the grains of sand in your shorts after a day at the beach. It’s a now overburdened cliché filled variety of punk copied ad nauseum.

However, the balls out sincerity and animated vitality the band brings to the material is refreshing and enjoyable. Makes you want to topple the paradigm and destroy government property. All That I Am, Bring In The Troops and Lets Start A Fucking Revolution are highly listenable and appropriately intense.

Situation and A Place Called Sanity are the songs on the EP that sounds out of step with the other tracks. There are quiet moments, allowing the music to breathe. Catchy, edgy and taut, A Place Called Sanity pauses before the lead, building tension. The Socialists have their own lyrical voice and if they continue producing this quality of material, will soon carve out their own unique musical path.

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