Not Chinese Takeout - “Makes No Difference”

Slush

• Grungy

• Baggy jeans and hands in pockets

Apple (Bravo! Johnny)

• This doesn’t sound like the same band

• Band would go hard in 1996

• Now it’s like 3 different songs

• Ooh, keep the yelly bits.

• 4 different songs

Makes No Difference

• I’m feeling the start of this song

• Where did the pop punk band come from?

• This album is scattered genre-wise. Like a kid with ADHD trying to put together a model airplane while reading a book and watching YouTube fishing videos

Empty Town

• I’m always a sucker for talk-singing in the background

• This song feels like eating cotton candy

• I’d put this in the background of a commercial for a small amusement park or county fair

Mountain Route (Better In September)

• I seriously can’t tell if this band is alt-rock, punk, emo, or contemporary.

• Each song gets cooler. If this album were a line graph, it would have a positive slope. Rise over run. or PEMDAS. or whatever

• I’d sit silently and stare at the wall to this

Passenger Queen

• Legitimately, no lane for this band. Just tossing tunes against the wall like wet spaghetti.

• It’s sticking tho. I’m here for it.

• Banger

Wish List

• Sad boys get hammered to this song.

• This song reminds me of eating California burritos in La Jolla

Worst Of It

• This is the opening band at a show that you haven’t heard of, but leave liking and for sure buy their hoodies

• The soundtrack for a pensive walk by the river

• The music video should be heavily light-filtered and exclusively show taking pictures down from the walls of a house

Say So

• Oh. Ok. So we end like we started.

• Hoodies on over the beanie

• This song feels like a pocket knife.

• Bookending.

I give this album: switching your converse laces from white ones to black ones, gas station boner pills, 2 picks lost in the sound hole of an acoustic guitar, a good scratch on a nagging mosquito bite, and a half-assed serenity prayer at a begrudgingly attended AA meeting