This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Cut Your Umbilical Cord might have been better.
After five years in the womb of the Seattle punk scene, indie quintet Vendetta Red make the move to the big leagues with this EP, a precursor to a full-length due in spring. If these four samples are representative, it could be a disc worth waiting for. VR strike a fine balance between the scream-punk of At the Drive-In, the riffy retro-rock of The Hives and the catchy pop-punk of Green Day. Plus they’re not afraid of acoustic guitars, as The White Nightmare makes abundantly apparent. Commercial enough to compete for airtime but too distinctive to be another cookie-cutter band, Vendetta Rose come off here as a cut above.
