Poop Stick (2019)
Ugh, another tape from 2019. Where did these all come from and how have they been buried for two years? I'm still trying to get through them all, but man, I don't really like listening to tapes. Anyway, next up is The Illiterates. They were freshman in high school when they recorded this. The good news is that even though it took me two years to listen to this, they haven't graduated yet. So, bonus.
Where do I start. This sounds like a high school band. The recording is super rudimentary and is fuzzy and blown out. The songwriting doesn't really do anything for me and there's nothing particularly interesting going on. You could have said a lot worse about me my freshman year. What I will say is at least one of the guitarists is obviously very talented. If he can figure out how to harness those powers for the forces of good, there's potential there.
I don't want to be super negative about this. It's not something that I'd ever listen to much and since I'm about thirty years older than these guys, I'm not really their demographic anyway. But I will say that I'm really happy and excited to see that there's still a subset of kids in school that want to play instruments and be in a band. They could have just as easily ended up listening to shitty music and being super stoked on cryptocurrency. I'll take kids playing bad punk rock over that any day of the week.
The Illiterates - Demo:
https://poopstick.bandcamp.com/album/demo
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