Product Description

This album is a from the BYO records SPLIT SERIES collection, this time on Volume 5 pits punk rockers Alkaline Trio and One Man Army together on one album.

Review

Vol. 5 of L.A. punk imprint BYO's Split Series features Bay Area punk revivalists One Man Army matching wits with maudlin Vagrant Records heroes Alkaline Trio. Each band gets six songs, Hating Every Minute and a cover of the Damned's Wait for the Blackout highlighting Alkaline's set, and OMA turning it on with The T.V. Song and The Radio Airwaves Gave Me a Lobotomy. Both groups stick to their trademark sounds, with Alkaline Trio frowning while smoothing the ends of ragged post-punk and One Man Army showing more flair for scraggly melody than Tim Armstrong singing in the shower. Recommended. --Johnny Loftus, Rovi