The Front Bottoms – Rose
The entirety of The Front Bottoms’ discography is pure gold, but their June release deserves particular praise for being able to nicely encapsulate everything that made their previous album immensely successful while also capturing a unique touch of the past youth. For a record named after the drummer’s deceased grandmother, Rose screams adolescence in every way possible way: all emotion, no thought. Consisting of six songs written years ago when the two boys were still in college and one that reaches back to lead singer Brian Sella’s high school days, this EP easily embodies all the ruckus, nostalgia and tomfoolery of summer. It features the kind of supremely candid lyrics only kids can come up with and only adults looking back can truly understand, the kind that puts complex emotions you don’t admit you have into hilariously simple terms. Sella’s jarring, off-key vocals that weirdly make sense in context are the cherry on top of the high-energy drum tracks, the creative song composition and the belligerent snuffs of punk mixed in with that feeling of pop music made in a garage. For those evenings when you just want to guzzle cheap beer, feel things, laugh at yourself and not give a flying fuck, slap on Rose. It’ll make you’re night. -Kelly Gonsalves
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