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 PINHEAD
GUNPOWDER- Compulsive
Disclosure (Lookout)
Pinhead Gunpowder is a side project for a group of musicians who are
better known for being in other bands. Billie Joe Armstrong is definitely
better known for fronting Green Day… which would explain why this band
sounds pretty much just like Green Day. Obviously this is not a bad thing
as Green Day is an incredible band that has set the tone for all the
wannabe pop-punkers out there, but Pinhead Gunpowder is its own entity. If
you ignore the fact that this CD sounds like someone else made it, it is
easy to commend these guys for being damn good musicians. It is clear that
they are veterans of the music industry who have mastered power chords and
put an extensive list of recordings on their resumes. This album is an
energetic and fun bit of pop-punk action that does not lack in catchy
rhythms. This fun, however, is short-lived as the nine-song release lasts
less than fifteen minutes. The brevity of the album is excusable only
because we know the members of this band are busy with their main
projects. So despite the lack of substance, as side projects go, this is a
mildly successful one.
–Emily Zemler
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