The spirit of the
Ramones and Iggy and the Stooges is what hovers over the tunes aboard this eight-song album of mayhem from this quintet of power-punk rockers from New Jersey. Almost everything is played in the same key and everything sports the pre-punk approved two-beat rhythm played at warp factor speed ten. Since attitude is everything on these types of records, the band succeeds mightily; the music is well played, the sounds are predictable and whatever meaning the lyrics had are long gone in the molten-lava metal mix of guitar riffs vying for space with tons of thudding bass and drums. Catchy though derivative, tunes like "I'll Be Standing," Learn To Burn" and "Born Wild" nonetheless stick in your brain and although this album was recorded in 1996 and '97, it sounds like it could have emerged out of anybody's garage studio in the late '70s or early '80s.