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I Set My Friends On Fire
• You Cant Spell Slaughter Without Laughter
• Epitaph

Fuck slant, alternative press, and absolute punk. I GET THE JOKE, And its great. I don’t know remember when it became a crime to have fun with music but i would love to go that exact moment in time and start uppercutting the shit out of people. I am kind of sort of mega sick of these pretentious 18 year old hipster pricks that think they are cool with their boris/sunn 0))) splits and their explosions in the sky 7 inches. I have this incredible desire to go down to the doug fir, roundhouse kick one of their plane glass bay windows and start blasting some blink 182 “Mark, Tom, And Travis Show” while i bomb around closelining one hipster after the next in the neck.

This album is just harmless fun, if you can’t appreciate the joke then you are too into yourself and most likely would frown on the idea of grabbing a family size bag of Funyons, some Ecto Cooler Hi-C juice boxes, a House of Pain mixtape, and heading to the river for a day. And if this is the case then i invite you to suck it.
The two bros of ISMFOF have created a great little parody of your stereotypical screamsing core band and in doing so make something that i would rather listen to then the original product. This kid matt has fairly impressive control over his screaming range pulling off everything from inverted screams and squeals, to mid range/high range and cookie monster vocals, and Nabils work on all other instruments raise the eye to exactly how much of a joke this is to him. If i was Nabil i would want to save some of these technical riffs for something more akin to a real project, but the level of musicianship he displays here is a breathe of fresh air.

This album is just a great joke on your average rise records or tragic hero records. Its got rap songs on it (their cover of “Crank that (Soulja boy) and their original “HxC 2 step”) its got skits, its got those vocoded and autotunned vocal stylings that are so popular with todays youth. Breakdowns? yep. It is just a goodtime that you can put on and some of your friends might think its funny and some of your friends will complain about how long the new postal service lp is taking instead of listening to a single note.

If Weird Al Yankovic took a jab at the alternative music scene you might get something simillar to this, although i think these two do a damn fine job at picking your average swooping haircut/white belt apart and showing the fun to still be had with music.