Number One
Pool Party
It’s Alive Records/Mooster Records, 2015
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Pool Party are from Miami, write really silly songs, and refuse to take themselves too seriously.
Formed in 2001 or ’02, no one can really recall with any certainty, the band set out to to entertain anyone who’d listen, and they never quit. Playing or entertaining, that is.
This is either garagey-punk rock or punky-garage rock, but definitely one of those things. This racket isn’t fueled by righteous indignation or adolescent rage. This comes from the Dee Dee Ramone school of “I Just wanna Have Something to Do,” and they do it really well.
“Pool Party Number One” is the sort of song/chant soccer teams have to psyche themselves up. There’s a nice touch of bright, spirited organ playing to liven the tune. “Undress for Success” should be the soundtrack for next season of any barely clothed reality show. “Boob Massage” is as knuckle dragging dumb as you hope it’d be.
“Strut My Stuff” is unbelievably great. It could have been written after binge listening to the first three Alice Cooper albums, on vinyl of course. “Freaking Out,” and “Drinking by the Pool,” are also proper sort of songs, with catchy choruses and more developed ideas. Here on side 2, they let on that they can not only play, but write a song that resembles something actually heard on the radio.
This is ideal for anyone who doesn’t feel the need to be burdened by annoying feelings like loss, loveImage may be NSFW.
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or despair, and don’t want to think too much.
P.S. Check out the great ear worm track from their previous release, Pool Party Party, “I Was a Teenage Weirdo.” poignant and self deprecating, the perfect song for anyone who’s ever felt they were on the outside looking in.
