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 BRINE
& BASTARDS- Set Sail For Sodomy (Refugee
Records) When I first laid me tired old eyes upon this rum soaked
tribute to all things pirate-y (13 songs total), I wasn’t sure if Brine
& Bastards could actually pull it off. And perhaps some of this doubt
I had was based on the time my band played a disastrous booze cruise,
dressed like pirates, the rocking of the boat causing us to absolutely
butcher our attempt at opening up with a turbo charged version of
“Gilligan’s
Island
,” and it only got worse from there. We were also constantly heckled by
the wasted group of John Hancock office drones out on their annual summer
excursion who made up the majority of our audience. Thinking about it
still makes me shudder. But I imagine if Brine & Bastards had been in
our place, they would’ve fared much better (and had a lot more fun,
I’m sure). I think this is because these scallywags are genuinely into
this incorrigible buccaneer thingio, and their enthusiasm for it is
infectious. When you combine
this with the fact that they also write some fun, punky, catchy numbers
that seamlessly reflect their overriding penchant for seafarin’
rambunctiousness, they come off as distinctly more than just a novelty
act. Raggedly charming sing-a-longs like “A Pirate’s Life’s For
Me,” “Spanish Prison” and “Whiskey Johnny” and the inherently
good humored “Overboard” make Set
Sail For Sodomy worth its weight in, if not doubloons, then at least a
fish sandwich or two from Long John Silver’s. This disc actually came
out last year, and after checking out their Myspace page (myspace.com/brineandbastards),
I found that they’ve come up with some more good stuff recently. And I
bet they’d do one helluva job on the Gilligan’s Island Theme. –Ben
Hunter
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