 Spider - www.myspace.com/spider1
Youth Insurance (re-released 2006)
Basement Records - www.basemenrecords.net
This album is a re-release, but it's actually really great in that it has a nice throw back feel to it, even with the album only being five years old. I'm not sure if it was the recording, or the intent of the band to have a sound like this, but it seems to be very treble heavy. I think it's great, a sound that we haven't heard for some time. "Youth Insurance" originally released in 2001, is a twelve track blast of blistering old school styled punk rock. Snotty and dirty...I'm often times thinking of the Dead Boys and early Clash sounds mixed with the Damned when listening to this album. Again, the album was released in 2001 (on Jesus Records), but the feel and the sound of the disc harkens back to a more pure time in the history of punk rock. A time when the music felt vicious, ferocious, grimy and, dare I say it, dangerous! With tracks that go on about life, loss and just plain humor, Spider nails all fronts of thought with a solid blast from their punk rock hammer! You may even recognize the vocals, courtesy of Hector Martinez, a member of Bullet Treatment at a time when BT needed a voice to set itself away from the rest of the west coast hardcore bands. Ultimately, Spider is for fans of filthy punk rock that makes you wanna fight and drink, and I for one find a new found interest in boxing hippies. -MG |
