BIRTHDAY SUITS
BIRTHDAY SUITS
"We're Birthday Suits, not 'The' Birthday Suits"
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Since their debut in 2005, the Minneapolis-based duo of Matthew Kazama and Hideo Takahashi has excelled at tossing elements of late-‘90s mathcore and classic Reagan-era punk against the wall with disarming power and impressively fresh results. Their latest release, The Minnesota: Mouth To Mouth (Nice and Neat Records), sticks to that formula, but with a smidge more spit-polish shining up their succinct sense of melody. The Birthday Suits’ biggest asset remains the way their blurry-but-brilliant mix of sharp edges and curvy hooks matches up neatly with their dark-humored lyrics and stage presence that feels as gleeful as it does dangerous. Fans of Future of the Left and No Means No will not be disappointed. [Hannah Levin, Seattle Weekly]
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"....the victory of Strange Lights sound is the uniting of Bridge Club and First Communion Afterparty into a supergroup of sorts that is greater than the sum of its parts. Imagine Led Zeppelin playing Velvet Underground songs or some such. It works. You'll be hearing more from them as the year plays out. They are one of my favorite new bands for 2008. And the year is still young." ~David de Young, Howwastheshow.com
