British ska; I’ve always been a fan, but the new stuff has left a lot to be desired.

Madness were fun and zany, the Specials serious and political and the Clash always managed to find a happy medium. The recent wave of American ska-punk is just horrible and their British partners in crime have been equally uninspiring, Capdown, for example, were mostly unlistenable. SKANKt are obviously trying to create a mixture of the old and the new which just ends up sounding like ‘lounge ska’; slow, drawling but mostly half-arsed in the extreme. Not one person who performs on this record sounds like they are enjoying themselves and they really want you to listen to what they have to say.

Sadly what they have to say is a pseudo-political garbled mess with constantly recycled instrumentals all the way through. They want to be The Specials; but they’re more like a white Aswad tribute band with no dreadlocks and much worse tunes.
Richard Swales