
With a Terrible Two or two in tow the Johnny Ill Band is a band that is doing such a thing. "The Doctor" (nope, not a cover of the Doobie Brothers last hit ever) is a twitchy rustbelt rock that in some circles could be tagged as art-punk but it's more of the pot holed street display for whatever desolate souls that may stumble by than it would appeal to a chin scratching, cheese eating gallery crowd. "Make The Feel Good" is along the same lines with it's DIY/Pere Ubu leanings but much more steeped in Sunday comic escapism than it is in Theater of the Absurd intellectualism.
Side two's "Television Personalities" takes a waltz tempo and drags it behind to a car to a place the Swell Maps might've stayed the night at while the decayed but still epic "Rocketship", a tune all about going to outer space to find someone different to hang out and party with, closes the record with some Simply Saucer pop moments and a chorus that has no choice than to be stuck in your brain the rest of the day.
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