Action Action
“An Army of Shapes Between Wars”
Victory Records

You know your band is in bad shape when your press bio claims that you are a leader in the nouveau wave movement that everyone from the shitty Killers to genre architects Franz Ferdinand are trying to disassociate themselves from.

Action Action are hardly cast from the same mold. Rather than try to make kids dance with overplayed hi-hat tapping and peppy guitars, this band seeks to bore their listeners with nauseating keyboard work and little-to-no six string action. There’s no fun on this record until the last handful of songs, where the group pick up the temp and rock a bit. “Analogue Logic,” the most rocking track on the record, even finds the band crying over and over that “This is the worst track.” Sheesh.

This band can best be compared to Orgy after having smoked a ton of weed. Just droning techno babble that does no one any good. Avoid and move on.

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