The
Corleones
Inferno Mafia
(Sick Boy Records)
Inferno
Mafia manages to be well-produced, crisp, and undeniably punk
without falling to either the prepackaged candy land gloss of
Pop Punk (Blink-182, American Hi-Fi) or the desperately Anglophilic
posing of Brit Punk Nostalgia (The Visitors, Gaza Strippers).
Songs like "Paper Street Soap Company," their Fight Club anthem,
show off their fun side, but The Corleones' sound places them
well within the universe of Southwestern Punk as well even
though they owe more to the Bouncing Souls than to Buddy Holly.
They're also
one of those rare bands that manages to comfortably bridge that
gap between the mosh pit and your girlfriend's couch. The Corleones
just might pull you back from the plaid-clad abyss of Emo and
remind you of why you liked punk in the first place.
They might
not be my first choice to open for The Ramones at the Vince Lombardi
High School senior prom, but they're definitely the kind of band
that makes you glad that you can dance and still look tough. Definitely
see them live. If you still feel enough like a teenager to just
let all that serious record nerd stuff go, get the album. Morgan
Rowe-Morris
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