I like that song, kinda-sorta, and the "Heads Will Roll" track has kind of a Karen OMD thing going, but for the most part, I don't think it's very good at all. If you'll excuse me for a second, I'm going to check and see if Mark Prindle referred to
It's Blitz! as
It's Shit!.
The record isn't quite bad enough for me to hilariously exclaim, "Yeah, more like It's SHITZ! if you ask me!"
Way to leave me hanging, Mark. But yeah, there's nothing here that I haven't heard from CSS or !!! or some other middling dancepunk band (which might be the only kind there is). Nothing here's as good as "Maps."
You know, if you kinda shut your brain off for a second,
Fever to Tell is sort of an update of Talking Heads'
More Songs About Buildings and Food. It's not better, good lord no, but it's an en-why-see art-punk suite for
our generation: all the songs are anywhere from kinda good to really good, and each one makes its point and gets out of the way just in time before you get sick of it (except "No No No"). It's hard to really have a favorite song because you can't immediately remember which is which: is it "Stay Hungry" I really like or "Artists Only"? Probably both. So yeah, the sequencing and blurring between songs (I don't necessarily mean the transitions themselves, though the crossfade between "Maps" and "Y Control" is a great musical moment) make the two kind of similar to me.
It's Blitz! sucks, and
Show Your Bones is good albeit a little forgettable, but I'll always have my
Fever to Tell, my hot summer jam of 2005 AND BEYOND.
