Break Up by Bastards of Melody

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Power Pop | Modern Rock

10 tracks | 36 minutes

Released Jan 2003
on Ransom Records / Face Down Records

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A tuneful, upbeat mix of energetic pop and anthemic rockers featuring memorable melodies and crunchy guitars.

Editorial review

Where is the G-spot where garage and power pop meet? That might be a question to ask Jersey City, NJ's well-named Bastards of Melody, who continue what they did on 2001's debut, Fun Machine, only with the engine purr more streamlined, like after a tune-up. Crisply recorded, these guys pile on singer/guitarist Paul Crane's hooks with vaguely '60s Kinks or '70s Cheap Trick choppy riffs, plenty of nicely chunky early Replacements charge, and some Sloan big-guitar pop. Sometimes they go for broke with straight-ahead, 4/4 thick guitar rock & roll, like on the opening "What's on Your Mind," "Ball & Chain," and "Way to Now"; sometimes they're more jangle pop, like "Cheat"; there's even one acoustic-only folk track (very Paul Westerberg!) for balance. It's all good. Warning: there's a tiny bubblegum pop tendency in the melodies, and they sometimes write lyrics like "When they wrote the book of love/They didn't mention you." But as long as the guitars keep ringing like they do from song to song, and drummer Jeff Prosetti keeps the fast stutter-fills coming, that's entirely acceptable and even kind of na?ve-cute. Energetic and sweaty but still mannered, these Bastards could have worn matching suits with special-cut collars and rocked if they were from 1963. Or they'd be a big act in the '80s U.S. underground, touring with the young Soul Asylum. Highly enjoyable! ~ Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

Bastards of Melody is a 4-piece pop-rock band based in Jersey City, NJ. The Bastards have been touring the Northeast non-stop since getting together in the spring of '98.

The band''s first release "Keep It Down" debuted in 1999, followed soon after by the album "Fun Machine" in 2001. "Fun Machine", produced by famed former Bongo's member James Mastro, attained great critical success with a solid, tuneful, upbeat mix of pop and punk with a touch of country twang. In July of 2001, "Fun Machine" reached number 137 on College Music Journal's Top 200 radio chart with spins on over 150 stations in the US and Canada. The Bastard's release their third album, titled "Break Up", in January of 2003