The Steinways
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I’d say something like “The Steinways are back!” but the truth is they never left us. Lead singer/guitarist Grath Madden is so prolific we’re never short of new material, and thankfully the band does not sacrifice quality for quantity. Songs like the Dirt Bike Annie-esque “I Shit (You Not)” and the epic (read as: almost 2 minutes long!) “Main Street USA” continue the now familiar horny teenager spazzing out theme, but while the music used to be sock-hop-on-amphetamines the band has now added a bit more spike to the punch this time around, rocking out in a fashion that eschews the typical 3-chord pattern and transcends the bands previous work in oldiescore territory.
“Good Morning Sunshine” starts off with an average pop punk riff, but the chorus opens a window and the song flies up and away into pure pop territory; a guitar lead bounces us to a bridge, and in the end we’re all chanting “wake the fuck up!” like the stifled beginning of the song never happened. The layered vocals on “Twenty Year Old Virgin” are terrific – the band does indeed have 3 singers – it would be wise to use them all (or at least bring them up in the mix) more often. The slab ends with a stab at Portuguese pop punk with “Voce Tem Labios De Uma Galinha.” All seems well and good until you discover the band wanted even the Portuguese words to rhyme, which gives us some interesting translations in the lyrics – “I had sex with the neighbor / you have lips like a chicken.” See? A song doesn’t have to be short to be funny!
More linkage – The Steinways on Myspace
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