Record Label: Upchuck Records
Genre: Punk
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These days, I’ll take whatever simple, snotty punk I can get, even if it’s amateurishly sloppy and thrashy. Botox Party won’t win any Grammys. They probably wouldn’t even win your high school’s Battle of the Bands. But they play loud, fast, and brash, they’ve got a decent riff here and there, and buried under all the crappy playing are sometimes “whoa-oh’s.”

Although I expected goofy/immature lyrics, they’re a bit introspective in a derivative hardcore way, and also touch upon political punk. Nothing groundbreaking or special, but I did like the point made in “Elitist Social Class,” which criticizes the punk community for its social castes. Not that it’s new, but it’s always nice to hear a young punk band disillusioned with its scene and not just sing about unity and “the kids” and other subcultural utopian claptrap.

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