Peelander-Z

PEELANDER-Z **1/2

P-Pop High School

Super fun time punk explosion number 1!

When your live show features Kaiju-style wrestling – with human bowling! – then you'd better be able to bring the crazy with your songs. On their fifth full length, the self described “action comic punks” put sanity in a headlock and work up enough spastic energy with their short blasts of bilingual punk to defeat even the most boring of killjoy mini-bosses. In fact, at times it seems less like the band is playing their instruments than punching the buttons on a wicked combo attack. Yes, it may seem like campy, Engrish, cos-play to some, but with songs as fun as The Clash-on-a-cartoon-bender “Let's Go! Karaoke Party!” you'd have to be a real bakayaro not to play along. (Eat Rice Records; www.peelander-z.com)

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