I Am Spartacus - Trigger Happy

 

Do you fancy a Power Pop album that is for more than people wearing Big Star T Shirts? Or a Punk Pop album with all the melody and none of the robotic talking vocals of the genre? I Am Spartacus are the solution to you problem/s. 

I have often said that the more melodic Pop Punk bands have the potential to develop into Power Pop's future and the genre badly needs them. It feels like the UK Biscuit market on Power Pop Facebook groups, a dying breed. To survive it has to embrace the new. You never know, da kidz might like to hear some Badfinger.

There is a real street wise wit to I Am Spartacus. They don't take themselves that seriously and have gathered a large following from the generation below ourselves. The lazy will compare them to Weezer, just as every Indie Guitar band are compared to Teenage Fanclub. 

To me they have much more in common with The Brothers Steve and definitely Tsar. On the stand out single, Go Fund Yourself, a potential Power Pop classic, Ben Peeples vocal could be interchanged with Jeff Whalen and that is some compliment. Trigger Happy is wonderful Guitar Pop.

Only on the opener, Push And Pull, do they come anywhere near Punk Pop, this is an album of hook driven, chorus led, melodic pop. Hashtag Douchebag is classic late 70's New Wave and You Suck At Life And It's Your Fault is a real wake up and smell the coffee moment.

I Don't Like You is another Power Pop stormer and Peeples even slows it down without getting maudlin and mawkish on Promise. The only time they can be compared to Weezer is on the excellent and hilarious Quarantine Got Me Like. This is a splendid album. Just listen to it and you'll be hooked. Trust Me!

You can listen to and buy the album here. You can also find other links here. I have deliberately not embedded any songs from the album in the hope that you'll be tempted to listen to the whole album by following the two links in the the previous sentences.

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