Album Review: The Melbies - "Songs For Harambe Vol 1"
It's pretty clear right from the word go that this isn't going to be the most sensible album you've ever listened to - with song titles including Sausagefest: The Musical! , I'm Sorry Indy and odes to the Beano and Rosie and Jim, it would appear that Dover pop-punks the Melbies are the sort of band who are perpetually cursing the fact that they arrived on the scene that crucial two decades too late to bag that Blink 182 support slot before they went emo. With support slots to the likes of the Wildhearts, the Vibrators and Splodgenessabounds, it should give you an idea of where these guys' influences lie but to their credit, they're nowhere near as obnoxious as a lot of their frat-punk forebears back in the early noughties were and the likes of the piss-take ballad There's A Reason and the ska-thrash of Beano do at least elicit a belly laugh the first time you hear them and they even show a bit of musical dexterity on the likes of Reboot Me and t...