Dirty Tactics hail from Philadelphia and get to spread some more of their melodic yet gritty punkrock with “It Is What It Is”. I’m still not sure whether to place them in Gainesville with the rest of the No Idea roster or on the other side of the US in San Francisco with their awesome poppunk bands back in the 90s. But whatever… these three guys are very good at what they do in songs like opener “When You Wake Up”, “Highway Robbery” or the slower “Train Song”. Unfortunately they have some bizarre desire to repeatedly fuck things up by adding lame intros of them horsing around in the studio or goofing off with a silly song. It might have been fun in the studio, not so much on an album you want to listen to more than once.
Score: 6.5 out of 10
http://www.say-10.com
http://www.myspace.com/dirtytactics
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