Something to hold on to – The Parasites
I love that this was released on Slumberland. It’s like the pop punk world and the indie pop world coming together in a way i’ve always thought they should, and in a way that would have felt naturally done back then, when it was all one big underground without all these new markets having been created. If the decree is good guitar pop music i don’t understand why anyone would prefer either camp over the other. The Queers wrote just as great songs as did Rocketship as did Beatnik Termites as did the Aislers Set. And i love this is one of the Parasites’ more openly pop punk sounding songs, not attenuating themselves in their crossover.