STARVIN HUNGRY
Damnesty
Grenadine Records
· Starvation alone does not a poet make.
Is John Milchem the next poet laureate of Canadian rock ’n’ roll? Despite being a somewhat erratic wordsmith, the guitarist and singer for Montreal quartet Starvin Hungry is one of the few punks in this country to invest meathead music with egghead insight since that eloquent fuck-up Art Bergmann last stumbled off a stage somewhere in the vicinity of Toronto. It’s a lofty comparison, and some will respond that Milchem is only about half as clever as Bergmann and twice as earnest. They’d be right, but Damnesty is merely Starvin Hungry’s debut album, and they are at least using the raw energy of rock ’n’ roll to strip human experience down to its barest essentials – if Milchem can just find his voice, he might yet prove himself worthy of Bergmann’s vacated throne.
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