Wow. Imagine my surprise seeing three black kids, aged 18-20 from Florida (with the singer/guitarist sporting giant liberty spikes) playing flawless Southern Cali-approved skate punk at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY back in 2005. It was naturally a bit disconcerting but awesome to see (and hugely energetic live) I copped their debut, Minority Rules which was essentially an album with 60% pop-punk, 40% rap with absolutely no coherence at all and nothing truly original. But on THIS album? To say that it's a completely different band that's made a GIANT leap forward in talent is an understatement. This is a real band emerging, mixing thrashy pop-punk riffs with reggae, Dirty South, acoustic ballads, hardcore-barked rap flows sometimes all in one track and somehow it's fucking working? Did my head just explode? This doesn't make sense. But it's so good. I can't believe NO ONE'S discovered this by now, almost two years later. We here at Sputnik Music suck hard for overlooking this gem. Seriously, listen to this. That this was COMPLETELY overlooked and forgotten, especially in every way on any Best Of 2009 lists I've read, is pretty sad. Don't suck at life and get this shit now.
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