What if Green Day would have remained just a local punk band in the Bay Area? What if they had never opted for power ballads and rock operas, what kind of punk rock would they have been peddling? Well, that question is answered in Billy Joe’s side project Pinhead Gunpowder. This time around Billy Joe teamed up with other local legend, Drummer, Aaron Cometbus formerly of Crimpshrine, and recently the short lived Thorns of Life with ex-jawbreaker’s frontman Blake Schwarzenbach.
The music is fast paced punk rock the entire album clocks in at a hair over 15 minutes. So quickly is the album over that some are calling it an EP. I don't know, back in my day an EP was a couple of songs, when you hit the Nine song mark you've put your self in stride for a full length recording, 15 minutes or not. Alas! I am splitting hairs. The album is pretty straight forward; power chords, drums following along, and just about the time you're getting into the song...it's over. Honestly though not bad for a straight forward punk album.
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