MATCHBOOK ROMANCE - STORIES AND ALIBIS

So this CD package has a great design. Terrific, even. Kudos to the people at Epitaph or whoever does this stuff for Epitaph. It's great. I fucking love it. LOVE IT. Looks like a little leather diary or something. And the booklet has this cool old paper look to it, all handwritten. In cursive no less. Very cool and creative. Yep, just terrific.
Oh! The album. Right. The music and whatnot. Yeah. Okay, look, I just don't think a 26-year-old, bitter-as-hell, cynical man-child like me is the audience for music like this. Despite claims of "punk" all over the press release and their website, this is really more like that rock music they play on the radio with, uh,.. Stained? Or is the "E" missing? "Staind"? Or, uh, Puddle of Mud? Or is that "Mudd"? Yeah. I don't know. I'm not the demographic. My comparisons might be off.
But this is perfect music for the kids who listen to that stuff, and girls who have outgrown Britney or Xtina (heh, heh) or that kid from NSYNC. That's who this music would really appeal to, if you want my opinion. (And since you're reading my review, I'll assume you do.)
Which is not to say it is bad. It's just that pseudo-anthemic, kinda-bombastic, snot-nosed-voiced type pop/nu metal/hardrock shit that I probably would've been all over in high school. Yeah, I'll admit that. At first listen I totally wrote this off as, shall I say,.. "poop". But after some repeat listenings I found myself bobbing my head. Maybe even drumming on my desk a little. It took me back to days when I was thin and got laid. Good days.
I miss those days,...
Hell with this review crap! I gotta find me some women!
If you have a little brother or sister, tell 'em about Matchbook Romance! They'll eat the shit up!
I gotta go!
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