You know world record stores are the greatest gift to grace
this fine planet of ours and upon randomly deciding to both make a stop and
brows through the bargain bin I’ve stumbled across what is truly the lost great
Power Pop record of its time in the form of Head Automatica’s Popaganda so
today I’m going to explain to you guy’s why this is truly an amazing find while
it’s feelings of poppy alternative bliss are at their most pleasureful.....
Now before I get to explaining how from the larger tehn life
feelings of tunes like Graduation Day, to the hollowing dark subtleness of
Cannibal girl, and the utter Cars inspired She’s not it I got a story about
that first song that’s why this album has some significance for me personally,
you see here this album came out 6/6/06 which was more a publicity stunt then
anything else because well why the hell not so it was released when I was a
freshman in high school so they were one of many kind of pop punkish emo groups
that where an object of desire that still in some sick twisted way bring joyful
memories of that time of discovery and it was the last day of school and for
whatever reason I got up at the ass crack of dawn for whatever reason so I decide
to say fuck it and go to my living room and turn on the tv to the music choice
channel because it’s like radio with no commercials and a specific variety of
tunes and this song was the first thing that came on and at that very second it
was the most awesome thing of all time so because of that this tune’s kind of
anthemic opening of Graduation Day and it’s very teen movie vibe make me smile
any time I hear it and it’s kind of the best way to express how from the first
song you’re going to end up hearing the best new wave album in a long time.
Like I said this album is just larger then life poppy cut
after poppy cut with plenty of strong guitar work especially prevelant in tunes
like She’s not it which is a fine balance of do-whopy sing along gold and well
performed rock and roll.
There’s absolutely no loss of energy at any point in this album
which just keeps everyone in high energy which is the strength of it all
because Daryl Palumbo as a vocalist is quite strong when he’s channeling his
inner Rick Ocasek finely balancing a blend of Doo-Whop and rock which this
album is chocked full of.
So what I’m trying not to repeat all over is that this album’s
damn good people and the fact that the company decided it’d be a smart idea to
tack on Beating Heart Baby as a bonus track is just a cherry in an already
amazing Sunday so if you’re going through a clearance sale or just on
Amazon/iTunes/ect. Get this damn album it’ll make your life that much better…
