Today Is The Day
Kiss The Pig
Relapse Records

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Today is a sad day for humanity. (Drum roll please.) The lead singer of that indie boy toy band Little Boy Sunshine is not happy today and he has called upon us, the music scene, to cry a river of blood and tears on his behalf, please, because I'm at a loss of words and don't know what to say. I'm completely flabbergasted at this horrible injustice done to this poor, disfranchised poster child for birth control. What has happened to him, you ask? Well, let me tell you. Someone knocked his beret off his head. It's seems alterna-rock diva boy with the PBS back patch and the Sonic Youth too- tight tee got it slapped right off the top of his head off by the lead singer of the newest kingpins of the hardcore/metal scene, abruptly named...Cuntpuncher. (It's an all girl group, stop crying and put away your life-size Le Tigre blowup dolls away, will you.). And while your at it, send that poor boy some flowers, I'm going to miss him. But, what will Little Boy Sunshine do now, how will he fight against the intolerable odds against him now? Will he take a stand and fight in behalf of the Morrissey fan club and wining about being human and needs to be loved? Will he stop trying to to be Mr. Clever Guy to the wrong people at after hour parties? Or will he start listening to the Stooges and hate metal and be a bigger musical snob than he already is? No, he will go home and write about it in his day to day blogonline so people can see what a pussy he really is.  It reads this.

Today I'm sad.

I'm so mad,I got my beret knocked off my head.

After he wrote this, a few days later. This was on his gravestone.

"Man, those Samoans are a surly bunch."

Today Is The Day is back again hitting you with the rhythm stick of ill repute with both guns blazing with newest and final release from Relapse records. It's 34 minutes of relentless, screeching, nails on a chalkboard, blast beat inspired lunacy that blazes like a swarm of locusts high on Viagra. It's more feral teeth gnashing ferocity from that lunatic asylum that put out last years Sadness Will Prevail. Only this time, instead of using the tightly wound up "I'm in a small room alone and I want to kill you" soundtrack landscape stylings of Sadness Will Prevail and Temple Of The Morning Star, Today Is The Day uses a more straightforward stripped-down approach to hit you head-on. It's not a pretty picture after the medics show up. So on that note, I'm outta here. And remember folks, the grass looks greener on the other side, but when you get there, it's artificial turf. See ya.
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Greg Dellaria