Let me start off with a couple things real quick: 1. In hopes to have a well rounded set of reviews, I have tried to sporadically choose bands in different genre's, so that I don't have too many highly rated reviews to post; 2. I like Punk, I grew up listening to it and still to this day enjoy it. Now enter this album by Christ On A Crutch.
At first listen, I had hopes that this would impress me, and all in all, the music itself more or less did; Ok, maybe not impress, but I was able to get into. Fast, aggressive bass lines mixed with the standard punk style down strokes on guitar and that always good fist punching drumming; but for me, that's where it ended. I really did not like the vocals, and in fact, I think the vocals actually hindered the album. To me, the vocals reminded me of Ben Weasel, from Screeching Weasel, which I liked when I was 17 or 18, but now, not something I am into at all. As I listened through the 15 tracks of decent punk rock, nothing seemed to stick with me. I have been lucky enough to be exposed to multiple different punk genre's, bands and albums, and honestly, Christ On A Crutch is not one that I will remember, or probably not play again.
I don't want to totally go off and say that this is the worst punk album ever, because it's not, but really its pretty standard stuff. There are some really good bass lines, and I will admit to getting into a couple of the tracks, but not to the point of wanting to listen to it multiple times. I have admitted before that I am pretty choosy when it comes to vocals, and I am even more so with punk vocals; I want dirty raw aggressive vocals, these vocals are pretty wimpy sounding. (To back up that last sentence there are good punk albums with Wimpy vocals- The Queers, which is bad ass!)
So, if you want a standard punk sound, that might get you going a few different times, but more or less leave you high and dry, get this album; but me, I will probably put this aside.
Official Score- 2/5
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