Review Summary: the harbor’s closed for this vessel, sorry.
Sometimes, as people, we do things that others perceive as extremely overbearing and unnecessary that we don’t necessarily realize. Whether it be playing annoying music repeatedly on the aux cord during a road trip, or shouting
”hey! play [insert song]! hey!” between songs in our favorite band’s set. These are the kinds of people that flood my head in imagery whenever listening through Trash Boat’s debut full length, the aptly and obnoxiously titled
Nothing I Write You Will Ever Change What You’ve Been Through. The album opens with the geniusly written “Strangers”, and collapses on itself pretty exponentially from there. The vocals are nasally and high, grating to even the cheesiest of pizza fans or the most seasoned of Man Overboard die-hards, the guitars are ripped from every song that The Story So Far did better than them, and the drums are as generic as mediocre pop punk drums get. It’s such a shame the lyrics are so well crafted, with many clever introspections and intricate imagery being displayed like diamonds in the shit-mound. But, the lyrics are monumentally overkilled by the disgustingly lackluster instrumentation and complete absence of originality. Trash Boat show the world with
Nothing I Will Write You Will Ever Change What You’ve Been Through that they are cool enough to stand in The Story So Far’s shadow too!
