{"id":11726,"date":"2012-09-07T18:14:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T08:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=11726"},"modified":"2012-09-07T18:17:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T08:17:04","slug":"off-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2012\/09\/off-off\/","title":{"rendered":"OFF! – OFF!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>CD reviews aren\u2019t necessarily an easy thing to write, some flow immediately, others can be agonised over for what seems like hours.\u00a0 I guess much like writing a song hey?\u00a0 The irony of this is that the new release from OFF! whilst having 16 tracks, clocks in at around 17 minutes in total, for the whole CD.\u00a0 Does that make a review any easier, or harder, I\u2019ve got less to listen to, and less to write about, right?\u00a0 Or for that matter, can writing songs that clock in at around 1 minute each be any easier than writing a song 16 minutes long?\u00a0 Shit, see already writing these first few lines as I listen to this album for the umpteenth time, the OFF! album has already flown through to Track 9.\u00a0 What\u2019s the point I\u2019m trying to make, I really don\u2019t know, all I know is that track 10, King Kong Brigade <\/em>knocked my freakin\u2019 socks off, pardon the pun.<\/p>\n

The existence of OFF! may have been accidental \u2013 Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks) Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides frontman), Steven McDonald (Redd Kross) and Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket From the Crypt)\u2026certainly an interesting colliding of musical worlds, but it\u2019s an accidental collision that has now produced 4 EP\u2019s and now this, their first full length album.<\/p>\n

Track after track is delivered at seriously breakneck speed.\u00a0 I\u2019m back on another run through now and two songs in and I\u2019ve Got News For You, <\/em>I want to smash shit up, no not the stereo, with this musical and lyrical aggression I\u2019m hearing, I want to crash through walls, slam into people, but alas I\u2019m home alone \u2013 that kind of smash shit up, but I\u2019ll find something.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t seen OFF! live before, but I no doubt will next year when they are out here in Australia during the Big Day Out run.\u00a0 If this band can transplant so much energy, rawness and beer drenched awesomeness onto recorded format, what is a live show going to be like?\u00a0 All I know is that I wanna be there and Dimitri told me I need to be there, so I\u2019m in.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re into hardcore punk,, you already have this album, I know it.\u00a0 If you think<\/span> you\u2019re into hardcore punk and haven\u2019t heard OFF!, then it\u2019s time to get real, because that shit you\u2019ve most likely been listening to, it surely doesn\u2019t get more authentic and real than OFF!<\/p>\n

Essential Information<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

For fans of:<\/strong> Hardcore and punk<\/p>\n

Release date:<\/strong> 27 July 2012<\/p>\n

Record label:<\/strong> We Are Unified<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>
\nwww.offofficial.com<\/a>
\nwww.facebook.com\/offband<\/a>
\nwww.weareunified.com<\/a>
\nwww.vice.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Track listing
\n<\/strong>01 Wiped Out
\n02 I Got News For You
\n03 Elimination
\n04 Cracked
\n05 Wrong
\n06 Borrow and Bomb
\n07 Toxic Box
\n08 Man From Nowhere
\n09 Jet Black Girls
\n10 King Kong Brigade
\n11 Harbor Freeway Blues
\n12 Feelings Are Meant To Be Hurt
\n13 Vaporized
\n14 503
\n15 Zero For Conduct
\n16 I Need One (I Want One)<\/p>\n\n

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