The guys in Presidents Of The United States Of America thought it was cool to play with a couple of strings less on their guitar. Ha! What a bunch of losers! Here’s a trio from Baltimore that proves you can play angry pop/punk music and don’t even need a guitar to do so!
With just bass, drums and vocals they’ve already released two albums and now there’s “More” which is exactly that. More. Setting up shop in an old abandoned building scheduled for demolition in the dead of winter might seem crazy to some but – as everything with these guys – it’s something that they thought about first. It gave them the time to mess around with some things and allowed them to make the album they set out to make.
And it’s a noisy album. From the straight-up punkrock of opener “No Allies” to the feedback-laden “We Are The Ones” and to the glorious mess that is “The Lie . The Truth” with guest vocals by Future Islands’ Sam Herring, these guys have no problem keeping things interesting until the last blast of feedback blows out in “Two-Way Mirror”.
Score: 7.5 out of 10
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