MP3: Montys Loco - Criminal
I'm bored with new music but since we oh-so-conveniently just passed 2008's halfway mark, I figure it's a perfect time to revisit some of my favorite releases of the year thus far. Hopefully I've harped on about Lukestar enough already for you to get the point (and the album, dammit!), so let's talk about Montys Loco. As I mentioned before, I love their pseudo-industrial pop sound, but even more, I love their attitude. I've spent a huge amount of time this year getting down with all sorts of bad-vibes hardcore and while I love that stuff, I can feel myself turning into a knuckle-dragger the deeper I get into it. It's a scene that's ripe with machismo, so it's incredibly refreshing to hear similar negative emotions from the fairer sex. Face it, women have every right to be just as pissed, if not moreso, it's just rarer that we get to hear it, especially outside of a hardcore/metal context. Loud guitars? Bah! Who needs em? I rather have off-kilter drum loops and clanging metal percussion for variety's sake. Anyone can recycle post-"Damaged" Black Flag riffs. This is something else entirely.
Montys Loco - Criminal