Various Artists - ATTICUS...Dragging The Lake II - [SideOneDummy Records]

2003-03-29

This is the second post-punk era, and
Sideonedummy's next Atticus collection of
unreleased and rare tracks is here proving that
genres can move on smoothly when the right people
keep things in check. Nobody here waves that
dusty "punk" flag very high today (even when Tim
Armstrong's around), and the unreleased songs are
often as good as or better than what is on their
albums. Hats off to anything Travis Barker
touches too (songs by the Transplants, Box Car
Racer, and Blink-182). The man's a percussion
prodigy, and (italics)"Dragging The Lake
II"(italics) is more insistent and precise
because of it.

Jason Thornberry