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The Sounds’ debut album is a fun piece of knock-off fluff. They pose and dress just like a modern day Blondie, but they sound just as plastic and chirpy as Missing Persons. They often sound like a cover-band, but the specific songs they sound like they’re covering are hard to point out (although the title track does dance dangerously close to “Kids in America”). They’re a lot of fun, even if unoriginal. And nowadays, what more can we ask from our guitar-based bands? With bands being signed because of the number of plays on their MySpace pages, it’s nice to see a band that can actually write, play and perform live all of their songs. It’s a manic forty minute set that sounds straight out of 1985. I played this a lot when I was in high school. Mostly to prove to my classmates that I did, in fact, listen to modern bands.
DOWNLOAD: “Living in America”
