You may have already seen these guys out and about dishing out metal edged power punk like a teenage Therapy? An attractive proposition you would have thought, and they're a cut above you're average shout pop punks. "Transmission", Violent Delight's debut album has been riding high on summer festival sales since it's release at the beginning of September, but it's a mixed bag.
The influences are a little too tangible. From the synth guitars and percussion (read Incubus) on "I'll Be Waiting" to the chugging guitars and "King For A Day" sub Patton-esque skwarking a bridge and a chorus later.Track 2, "All You Ever Do", treads dangerously close to "Screamager" at best and at worst it's white boy angst is plain stomach churning.
Still their struggle for identity makes a pretty cohesive listen
right up until the aural bile that is "I Wish I Was A Girl" (a misogynist tit song) and "Parental Guidance", another sniggering schoolboy effort, is about ..... your parents having.... sex!!!!! This is all rounded off neatly with a wank song called "Same Old Story".
Don't get me wrong "Girls of Porn" by Mr Bungle is one of the greatest songs ever written, I'd rank it over "Bohemian Rhapsody" any day. "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" is one of the greatest blues standards there is. Yup - songs about masturbation are pretty much my thang. However, "Same Old Story" isn't just about wank. It is wank. Maybe licensers Warner have decided that this is now A Unique Selling Point, who
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knows? Fact is most kids pushing puberty will spot the gaping lack of material and getting through the CD in one sitting has suddenly become an ordeal for anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size.
There are plenty more school disco dance floor fillers in "Transmission"s hinterland if you make it that far. In
the meantime, let's hope they dish up something more consistently credible before Violent Delight become pop punk's first rhyming slang casualty.
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