Sunshine State

***Pour is the 12-song debut album by Gainesville, Florida's SUNSHINE STATE, featuring past and present members of AGAINST ME! and WHISKEY & Co.! Beautiful art by SEAN MAHAN. Picture Disc LP includes download code! 
 
“...Sunshine State started as part of a “musical roulette” project at Oakes’ Boca Fiesta restaurant/venue in Gainesville, Florida, and there’s a definite melting-pot-of-influences feel that permeates the dozen songs on Pour, their debut full-length. 
Vocalist/bassist Troy Perlman’s melodic yet scratchy vocals and the galloped frolic of the majority of these poppy punk songs give this an immediate placeholder in the No Idea Records catalog—but wait, there’s lots more to come. Things get decidedly ’80s at times; we’re not talking ’80s hardcore, but rather poppy, new-wave-tinged rock in the vein of the Cars and Gary Numan (“Friends Of The Deceased” is especially John Hughes soundtrack-worthy).”—Alternative Press (4.5 of 5 Stars)