Dailyish Review - The Young Punx - Your Music is Killing Me

This album dropped last year in the UK and is just now being released in North America. However, it would have fared better if it came out nine years ago in the UK when people loved hearing this stuff in car commercials and bullet-time fight sequences. The Young Punx call their sound “mashpop and punkstep” but to me it’s the aural equivalent of running the gauntlet on American Gladiators. Except instead of guys named Malibu and Turbo pounding you with foam batons, washed up electronic musicians of yore are hitting you with every stagnant genre of dance music you can imagine. This album has them all—deep house, big beat, jungle, disco, breaks and electro—for what seems like a never ending 13 tracks plus five interludes. Unless you’re Wesley “Two Scoops” Berry, you’re probably not going to make it through the whole album without receiving a painful shot to the ear (Berry is in jail right now for robbing a bank so chances are you aren’t him). The cringe-inducing lyrics in “You’ve got to…” include “You’ve got to rip it and burn it and pump up the sound. You’ve got to pod it and blog it… yeah.” Allow me to reluctantly suggest doing the first two. Definitely not the last three.

Ultra

2/5

–Michael Mann