The Skadaddles. With that name, what did you expect? Yep, it's another ska disc. But take a look at where this band hails from..Georgia. East Coast ska? Yeah, and they're good! If all labels had Eclectica's sense of standard, perhaps ska wouldn't have gotten the bad rap that it has.
These guys are the first band since Tourniquet to send me running for my dictionary. One title reads "Inextricable Prolixity Consummated Amidst Relentless Insomnia." Say what?? Turns out it's a bit of self-deprecation on the boys' part (look it up.) Musically solid, just in time to catch the end of the ska train, but lyrically a bit stranger than normal ska, as in the line from "Prolixity": "And somewhere out between the starry night, the Montagues and Capulets are shining bright, evading life's pretentiousness."
It may be too little, too late to save ska's reputation, but it's a fine album nonetheless.
3.5 tocks
