By: Rob Perez –
If your idea of nostalgia is the period between 1998 and 2008, Get Out’s The Violation of Terms and Conditions is a must-buy. Stream this album and be ready to time travel into the past; Get Out’s eighth studio album has a little bit of everything you miss about those pre-social media days when everyone was rocking flip phones and Tom was everyone’s friend on Myspace.
First, some history. Get Out has been around since the mid 90s, so they’ve seen music styles and tastes come and go. They’re a punk band spawned from the Green Day mold. And Violation . . . is a pop punk album heavy on the Fall Out Boy playbook, with a dash of late nineties Limp Bizkit-inspired radio-friendly nu metal.
Seventeen tracks are included, including four with Florida in the title (one of which lasts 16 seconds). Some have political leanings while others describe post-pandemic angst which will have listeners expressing “Yes, that’s how I’m feeling.” Musically, there’s lots of tight, expert guitar work, and banging drum beats, while production-wise it’s obvious the band is going for a radio-friendly vibe while still trying to maintain a hardcore sound to maintain cred. One of Violation’s better tracks, “Rotten Apple”, begins with a metal-sounding riff, going low and smooth on vocals before picking up again with more aggressive guitar and drums.
About the hardest thing about their single “Bitchface” is the track’s title. It’s a nice-sounding message-y track about a sweet girl who falls on hard times with not a happy ending. But its syrupy music will just cause you to pay more attention to that than the message. “The Right Is Wrong” is Get Out at its most political, describing the events following the 2020 general election. “You can’t be incompetent and hold onto your job. . . the right is wrong,” tells you how the band feels and leans to.
Violation . . . won’t grab you at first, but down two beers and the songs do grow on you. It’s got its issues and some tracks are just meant to be skipped over, but you can appreciate the musical efforts of the veteran band. Its imperfections are probably the most punk thing about the album.
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