Playing in a band where the other members form a couple can’t always be easy I imagine. But Mike Fitzpatrick (bass / Farfisa organ) seems to be keeping up well the husband and wife team of Bill and Lisa Roe, drums and guitar respectively. On their latest release “Things Are Not All Right”, this Chicago outfit rips through all ten songs with the urgency of a punk band but instead they play this kind of psyched-out garege-y powerpop that totally works for them.
With buzzing guitars that remind me of both the Buzzcocks and the Ramones and a bit of Elvis Costello, they have no problem selling their seemingly simple songs to me. But just like with an act such as The Marked Men, the songs here are not as simple as they seem to be. With every single listen, you stumble across something else to like making it ever harder to believe that “Things Are Not All Right”.
Score: 7.5 out of 10
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