This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
In the emerging criminal science of geographic profiling, experts use the location patterns of crime sprees to figure out where the perps live.
Well, if they turned that expertise toward music and spun this CD, I bet they could pinpoint Sub Debs’ home turf faster than a cop can wolf a bearclaw. Wanna play detective? Here are the clues: They’re a trio. Two (the bassist and guitarist) are female. Their 30-minute CD has 14 tracks of spunky riot grrrl-pop with choppy chords, charmingly ragged harmonies and cute lyrics about picture phones, no-good men and German love songs. OK, time’s up. If you said the Pacific Northwest, not bad. If you said Washington State, even better. But if you’ve been paying attention, your final answer could only be Olympia. You just earned yourself a jam buster, officer.
