DRIPPING SLITS

Short Skirts & Long Nights

Thinker Thought

5 / 10

Track listing:

01. Foreplay
02. Mischief
03. Gutter Children
04. Same Old Song
05. Snake Piss
06. Short Skirts & Long Nights
07. Taste My Sin
08. Tail
09. Speed Queen
10. Heroin Chic
11. Bastard Son

Good job coming up with a band name that'll at least get critics' attention in this crowded scene. Beyond the obvious is an 11-song download album in "Short Skirts & Long Nights" that offers lots of rockin' hardcore bark, but little in the way of bite.

When you include "similar artists" in your press release that include gods THE STOOGES, MC5, and SLAYER, you damn well better be ready to deliver. It is unclear from the music contained herein where in the hell SLAYER figures into the equation, but it is true that the loud, amp-blowing guitars, live-in-the-studio sound, and raucous manner of delivery remind of both Detroit greats. Then again, would either have immediately come to mind without the name-dropping? It's hard to tell, but nonetheless fairly accurate. Unfortunately, that's where it stops. At the end of the day you get plenty of abrasive recklessness, yet rarely anything that'll leave with you at the end of the evening. That said "Gutter Children" is one that stuck, but barely. Beef it all up, add more dynamic songwriting and just as much as the MC5 you'll hear a band that on occasion sounds like EVERY TIME I DIE. Good, bad, or indifferent, it's still your call on that one.

Nobody is throwing barbs about how shitty an album the Central Illinois boys have made because it's not shitty at all. The songwriting just pales in comparison to the reckless abandon. "Short Skirts & Long Nights" is high on energy and low on staying power.

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