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  Daughter 
  Skin
  (AUM Fidelity) 

   review by Scott M.X. Turner
  2003-09-13
Daughter: Skin (AUM Fidelity)

Daughter's really, really pissed off!
And horny!
Daughter is to punk rock as Lorena Bobbit is to pillow talk!
Screech it, Daughter!
You're pissed off!
And why not?!
Lovers are jerks!
Boyfriends are worse!
Kids have no future!
No future, just bad sex!
No future!
No punk band's ever sang that before!
Screaming always helps!
So do guitars that don't sound like static!
Beef up those punk rock guitars, Daughter!
Skin has a song called "Love Song"!
It's not a love song!
"What the fuck you gonna do when it's all I can do to keep myself away until I'm fucking you too"
What punk rock fan didn't see that one a mile away?!
Real good punk rock doesn't telegraph its punches!
It punches the telegraphs!
And the television, radio, and punk-by-numbers records like Skin!
Real good punk rock is more than one note, one pitch, one color, one
scream!
Okay, "Blunt" is dub!
Dissonant dub!
Dubonant!
"Blunt" is cool!
It's not punk-by-numbers!
It's different!
Too bad it's not a 45-minute dub plate!
It could be the whole album and it'd be real punk rock!
Doing something new and true is real punk rock!
Daughter sings in lyric fragments!
Hors d'oeuvres of ideas cut with niblets of rage!
Tasty!
But not so filling!
"Hands In The Pants" sounds like a real skagged-out Northern State doing Dr. Seuss!
No!
"Hands In The Pants" sounds like Fannypack's "Cameltoe" changed to please the punters at L'Amours in Brooklyn!
A runnin'-scared move!
Fannypack sticks to their guns!
Daughter doesn't know what guns they're trying to fire!
I don't wanna be your target practice, Daughter!
"Packin'" is about taking drugs!
A new type of rock'n'roll song!
Alright, Daughter!!
Best as I can tell, Daughter's...
1) miserable!
2) lost their weed!
3) has some shit in their head!
4) is not done misbehaving! (Thanks for letting us know!!)
5) guitars don't hit hard enough for all this angst!
6) fucks and just has the worst time! (Who doesn't these days?! Not me!!!)
7) suicidal! (Who isn't these days?! Not Hamas, Al Queda and Daughter!)
Crazeeee!
Daughter's kinda jaded!
Real good punk rock sups off cynicism!
Real good punk rock hates jaded!
Daughter hates grammar!
Not street grammar or casual grammar!
Daughter hates all grammar!
Down with grammar!!!!
"So doubtful was I of your attention that I sat myself down with a gun in your face and asked about your days" (from "Misbehaving")
I'm glad Daughter has a gun in my face!
I hope Daughter pulls the trigger!
I wouldn't have to listen to a line like that again!
Alright!!!!!!!!!!!
Daughter's a rock band and putting out an album means having cover art!
Cover art's irrelevant!
But not Daughter's!
They're skanks with goth makeup!
The women, anyway!
All the guys look like you could watch sports with them!
Me and the boys in Daughter can watch the Jets and the Cowboys!
Football's sexual!
Pat those asses after a good play!
No girls allowed, right Daughter's boys?!
Women flashing tits, boys refusing to ooze sex!
Just like the rest of the entertainment industry!
When punk rockers look like Christine Aguilera thinks punk rockers look, no one gets hard or wet!
Daughter wants you to get hard and wet!
You won't!!!

(apologies to lester bangs)





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