Party Time is the debut album by Brooklyn's TVOD who are Tyler Wright, Mem Pahl, Micki Piccirillo, Jenna Mark, Serge Zbrizher, and Denim Casimir. The band formed in 2019. They drove up to drove up to Montreal, Quebec, to record at Gamma Recording Studio. It was produced by Felix Belisle and Samuel Gemme.
The album opens with radio signal noises leading into a New wave punk song Uniform that sounds like it's about being forced to wear a work Uniform, or is it a school Uniform, they sound like they are in a fast food joint and worrying about a collapsing world, the music gets more intense squalls of guitar, phaser sounds driving the point home.
Car Wreck has flanged guitar interspersions, like tyres screeching into a crash, they scream at their therapist that they have a car wreck life is all they've got, it's all gone to hell, how can they stop shooting themselves in the foot again, howls of pain screeching out the speakers, your life implodes.
Pool House has details of another dead-end day job he has, to help finance all the drugs and partying he wants to do, he wants you to fight for him, so he can get his full right to party like the last 10 years never happened.
Empty Boy he's lost his mind, he dreams of being in Wipers or Gang Of Four, but really he's just slipping away, trying to escape all the exploitation those squiggly guitars signal.
Super Spy is probably looking for a new job since Doge made him redundant, with almost spoken word vocals he claims to come from 2064 anything to throw us off the scent, to exactly what this reminds me of, is it late period Inca Babies or Nightingales or something else entirely.
MUD isn't a tribute to the gods of glam rock sadly, but about a real roll in the MUD with someone they thought they wanted to be with, but shouldn't have, over urgent post punk guitars riffing away.
Wells Fargo is a love or lust song for the bands favourite Wells Fargo employee, the only one I've ever known ran the incredible Teenage Kicks fanzine so this might be a good choice, the music is an intense full-on rush.
Alcohol is what the 1000th song called Alcohol, this time they want to be smashed for all time, they ain't ever coming down, guess give 'em a few years and the DT's will set in, but until then they are having one hell of a time ignoring all the insanity going on around them.
Take It All Away they want no more of that stuff, the party is over the shame and recriminations are setting in, the up has become the down, will you walk away in time, or will real tragedy occur, you'll need to listen to the glistening guitars to find out.
Bend to your will, is what they will do, anything to fit into your scheme of things, well almost anything, they aren't getting into bed with a Trump, but almost anything else is on the cards, for this slow rumbling, menacing song of discipline and sublimation.
The album doesn't end with a cover of the Jazz Butcher classic Party Time but TVOD's 21st century update, they tell us just how they like to Party with all the fun you could have had with a Valley Girl, weird droning synth oscillations make this sound like a Halloween Party, Party Time now whose got the Black Flag records and the Tequila let's get it on!
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