Montreal based dance punk rockers The Fake Friends go through a shit load of ideas on their Let's Not Overthink This album, ending up with an uneven bunch of tracks that so a lot of promise - with the exception of Five Star Review, a lame sort of spoken word tongue-in-cheek band bio in-joke that they should have shelved - but an outsider look would have tightened things up quite a bit.
There is rather good EP in there - tackling rampant consumerism Sucker Born Every Minute, the morose Control, the stop-start Hyperconnection, and the boogie rocker Dance on my Grave (imagine Status Quo having a party with Triggerfinger). They have the licks, they have the riffs, but trying to make each song an anthem was probably not the greatest idea.
Let's Not Overthink Thi is released via Stomp Records(vinyl, digital).
- Ministry of Peace
- Sucker Born Every Minute
- The Way She Goes
- Control
- Five Star Review
- Living The Dream
- Backstreet's Back Pt. 2
- Hyperconnection
- If it Happens
- Dance on my Grave
- Good Friends
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