THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “You can file this new one from Sudbury garage-punks Jeff Houle and Strange Attractor in your mental record bin next to VOM, The Angry Samoans, The Reatards, The Chats (whose singer makes an appearance here), and The Gizmos. Y’know, punk-rock with garage guffaws wrapped up in the mix real good. You will find neither grim hardcore nor retro fashion show here.
The title track Good Boy, Bad Boy might remind you of The Panics, assuming you were hanging around Bloomington, Indiana in the early ’80s. It’s the aggressive nasal sneer that’s been a mainstay of punktitude since at least Question Mark and Sky Saxon circa 1966. But it’s the opening track I Wanna Be You that sounds like the single — snarling power-poppy punk with an inverted ironic warning against envy. Nature Man is another winner. Is it a modern answer song to the Eden Ahbez/Nat King Cole standard Nature Boy?
Is there a big Spanish-speaking community in Sudbury? Because there’s also a song called Destruye Todo that takes a mere 24 seconds to “destroy everything.” Don’t Waste My Time sounds like a good followup to should-be-a-hit-single I Wanna Be You, another catchy punker that could be an anthem if anybody was singing along. How about you? Maybe this one? The Chats singer shows up on Warm Piss. Yep, you can hear his beer-sodden Oz vocal trading barbs with Jeff’s nasal whine. And there’s more! 18 tracks total! Yay!”
