THE EPOXIES
Stop the Future
Fat Wreck Chords
· Portland, Oregon five-piece rework the new wave.
Like the two-part adhesive that is their namesake, The Epoxies split my reaction right down the middle. Part A, the resin, is sticky, catchy new-wave pop of the sort that peaked, crested and crashed two decades ago. Part B, the catalyst, is that there is not a single new idea to be found anywhere in these 13 tracks. On their second disc, Portland, Oregon’s Roxy Epoxy, F.M. Static and company retrieve, reuse and recycle every old, new-wave cliché imaginable – the eighth-note bass lines, the robotic uh-oh-oh vocals, the squawking bleeping synth lines and the cold-wave guitars. It’s all there, and yeah, you can dance if you want to.
Those who missed out on the tide the first time around will probably find it fun, and the re-release version manages to sound a little less pretentious than the first wave did. Mercifully, they have more or less avoided the affected, fake English accents that plagued the sub-genre. The Epoxies won’t stop the future, but at least they‘re having fun playing in the past.
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