Tv Freaks

***Hamilton's TV FREAKS are busting at the seams with energy and spit. As if you were gazing at a school shooter's instagram account, the cover art here is nihilistically gorgeous with a child playing with dad's gun pressing it against his head, all smiles in the sun while the band's logo sprays out prophetically in white blood spatter from the other side. One way of making your Sunday afternoon in the park a real bummer. The sleeve speaks volumes about the music inside and that music is loud and scathing. The vocals are just as distorted as the guitar.  There is a smug cynicism that sits on top of every song. An angry din of frustrated chord pounding, shouting and the drumming like they're trying to stab through cymbals and skins. Perhaps the last minute of the record is relative to the next frame of the cute kid in overalls playing roulette on the grass? Whatever it is, it's a glorious mess and leaves the same type of experience that you'd get out of a Flipper album. TV Freaks do a great job of taking some classic and modern influences to come up with their own unique and fresh sound. This is pure punk rock that looks better in blood on a guitar than spray painted on a leather jacket and I'm sure if the gods of good taste get off their asses you'll see both.