DARKBUSTER
A Weakness for Spirits
Stumble Records
Punk in drublic.
If you like your punk music raw, rowdy and under-funded, then Darkbuster is right up your trash-strewn alley. These booze-soaked Bostonians may have come together in 1997, but their no-holds-barred, punk-meets-ska sound goes back a lot farther than that, tracing its grubby roots to the dub-wild daze of London in the ’80s. Cheap thrills and Celtic pride abound as Darkbuster swings from rockabilly to doo-wop, pumping out an endless list of anthems to juvenile delinquency. Joining the fray, Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys provide additional guest vocals for several of the 18 tracks on A Weakness for Spirits. Whether they’re being funny or angry, it’s hard not to admire Darkbuster’s boisterous, no-frills approach to such songs as "Stand and Deliver," "Skinhead" (Skinheads! Do you have any idea how long it’s been since anyone wrote a song about skinheads?), "No Future" and "Whiskey Will." And who could forget "Grandma was a Nazi"?
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