Ghoti Hook runs through a clutch of rock & roll favorites on the rowdy holdover record
Songs We Didn't Write. Beginning, naturally, with "I Love Rock & Roll," the band punks and pops up tracks from
New Order ("True Faith"),
Violent Femmes ("Hey Nonny Nonny"), and tears into goofy fare like
Michael W. Smith's "Friends" with obvious glee. The latter's appearance is typical
Ghoti Hook -- the band's Christian identity has always been slightly skewed from the Christian music genre's normal niceties.
Songs We Didn't Write is more of an album for fans -- it's raggedly recorded, and its material -- barring a faithful, heroic take on
the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind" -- isn't strong enough to stand alone. But that's okay, since it's obvious that
Ghoti Hook didn't really intend this album to be much more than it is -- a raucous, bawdy, "because we can" record. ~ Johnny Loftus