ANTIPRODUCT - "Take Your Cash Please" - 2009



By looking at photos of Antiproduct you might get the idea they're a spastic hybrid of Industrial and Punk rock, or maybe something like "Mindless Self Indulgeance". I was pleasantly surprised to find them to be more of a hard-driving Power Pop band with an amazing sense of melody and big hooks. Now, they have moments of pure intensity like in "Arms Around The World" and "I Will Not Go Quietly" but most of the album is more strait up heavy Pop Rockers.

They even have couple nice love songs on here that are a pleasant surprise. Their cover of Beach Boys "Good Vibrations" is how I always wanted B.B. so sound, with some balls and a bit over the top. Antiproduct was able to pull off the harmonies with amazing accuracy too. There is one song that really did fit their image of insane cartoon characters, "Bungee Jumping People Die". It's a deliciously twisted tune that is absolutly impossible to categorize.

I could sit and list comparisons, but I instantly think of UK rockers "The Wildhearts" and even going back to Queen, mostly because of their diversity and and amazing song-writing abilities. The band seems to have no rules and simply relies on writing good songs. They also have 2 girls in the band, Milena and Clare who both have the looks and do amazing work in the backing vocal department. Clare really has what appears to be amazing stage presence and more attitude that Joan Jett and Wendy O. Williams Combined. Milena seems to play every instrument invented, she's also done work with Marky Ramone. And frontman Alex? Well, he was in another extremely underrated band back in the early 90's called Life, Sex & Death. He's a blistering guitarist but is more focusing on the vocals and leading the party in Antiproduct.

I really hate to use this cliche', but this band will have something for everyone. There's some sugary Pop, some heavy dark shit, some love songs, and most of all fun up-beat rock songs. They are exactly what is missing from the music scene, they are fucking rockstars, larger that life putting on a show that you won't soon forget.