{"id":422,"date":"2013-11-18T09:12:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=422"},"modified":"2013-11-27T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:01:56","slug":"tough-age-tough-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/tough-age-tough-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Age <br>Tough Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tough_age_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-423\" alt=\"Tough Age\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tough_age_cover.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tough_age_cover.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tough_age_cover-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Had Tough Age been stomping around during the late-60s explosion of garage-rock fever infiltrating the underground music scene in America, their name would have most likely been scribbled on some checklist when Jac Holzman and Lenny Kaye sat down to assemble the groundbreaking <i>Nuggets <\/i>compilation. Although technically a Canadian band, the Vancouver quartet\u2019s self-titled debut teems with classic American spirit and the bubblegum-wadded bomp and snarl of the first-wave pioneers.<\/p>\n<p>But while the majority of the songs do their share of navigating through the agitation and seediness of garage-rock flair, there\u2019s also an unmistakable push towards modern day pop-punk during the pogo-frenzied romp of \u201cDream Date\u201d or the giddy pop bumble of \u201cI Waste Too Much Time on Myself.\u201d It\u2019s not as off-putting as the Warped Tour\u2019s more disinfected machismo, but it lacks balls and may wear on the avid garage-rock nut over time. So too is the case with \u201cCoffin Foam.\u201d It\u2019s a standardized appropriation of the classic punk cover, \u201c(I\u2019m Not Your) Stepping Stone,\u201d with sing-song choruses and a jangly catchiness that is about as digestible as the Sex Pistols covering Bread.<\/p>\n<p>While Tough Age\u2019s preference to lean heavy on polishing up punk\u2019s trashy sloppiness can be quite aggravating, the album is not a complete loss. \u201cWe\u2019re Both to Blame\u201d is all 1-2-3-4 in its two-minute blast of Ramones-rattled urgency, while \u201cCocaine Voucher\u201d is pure slapdash, speed-freak rock &amp; roll. \u201cSea of White\u201d recalls the fuzzed muss of the Easybeats, with a Big Muffed guitar lead that is charred to the bone, while \u201cHave You Seen Her\u201d follows up in a pop-tilted mash of reverb and distortion.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the problem that continues to plague today&#8217;s garage-rock scene is not so much its delivery as it is its originality. If that\u2019s your thing, then you get what you paid for. There\u2019s absolutely no crime in succumbing to the genre\u2019s fuzz-damaged direction. However, if you tend to think outside of garage rock\u2019s limitations, you may find yourself disappointed in Tough Age\u2019s pop-heavy embracing on this album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had Tough Age been stomping around during the late-60s explosion of garage-rock fever infiltrating the underground music scene in America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,150],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-tough-age"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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