SSM
s/t
(Alive Records)

SSM!With cover art pleading for a vinyl release, or a mural, this 21st Century boy is thankful beyond his years that SSM came delivered on an 'easy to get started' 5" disc. This album... there is really something new and exciting - yet rooted in a thick nugget of nostalgia some 35 years past - going on here.

"I'm sick / of making front page news", says this band of mind-slayers on "Sick" [MP3]. Well, Szymanski, Shettler & Morris, I'd say get used to it - 'cause it's not everyday you hear rock any music this exciting. Hell, "2012" sounds like the theme Bond - James Bond - has been waiting for since he started getting all Octopussy. All that and the jam is about women from the future who feed their lovers "mashed potatoes and iced tea". Deal!

Drums, all six strings (that slaying solo on "no looking back" grips me), multiple categories of keys and vocals supreme - this album.. . I mean Good! Lord! Detroit! Rock! City! Mothership! - kaleb