Review:

on 2008-05-19 psychoticbarber Said:

Propaghandi is a Canadian punk revival band from the 1990s. How To Clean Everything, their first full-length album, is quite short, just over a half an hour. This release features Chris Hannah, Jord Samolesky, and John K. Sampson (Instruments Unknown). The band is known for their vegan lifestyles, lecturing the crowd between songs, and being irreverent. They are, in essence, a quintessential progressive punk band.

This band kicks things off with a musically wonderful song called Anti-Manifesto, and finishes the album with a Cheap Trick cover (I Want You To Want Me). I'll let you decide whether or not that's a good thing. This band, much like Rancid, is better with their instruments than many typical punk bands, and their up-tempo style is infectious and amusing.

The music suffers somewhat from a lack of maturity, but this is understandable given that this is their first release. At times, however, the album flourishes because of the lack of maturity. This is especially true in the song "Ska Sucks", wherein the Ska Revival is lambasted and lampooned to the off-beat reggae sounds of, what else, ska. But don't worry folks, on the website they assure me that it's just a joke, they don't hate ska.

This is not one of the most brilliant collections of music I've ever heard, and it's not all that great in the serious, critical sense, but I greatly enjoyed listening to it, and will continue to do so.
Rating: 8/10