By: Mike Mucus
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They call themselves “thoroughly
modern morons” but these guys from NJ and BK just put out a brilliant record. Midnight Movies is a 7” (No Way Records/2011) that features the A–side “Midnight Movies” a surf/punk gem. Mike Hunchback’s guitar sounds like Satan
performing a root canal with a rusty dental instrument from the very first
second of the record. From there Night
Birds’ ode to trashy horror/gore films is a powerful burst of excitement, its like an
excitement boner of what seems like singer Brian Gorsegner’s favorite pastime,
watching midnight movies.
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| Photo by M. Mucus |
The B-side to Midnight Movies
has three raucous catchy tracks "No Way Home", “Bad Biology”and "Triple Feature" which sound like D.R.I or Agent Orange or a slew
of defunct punk bands save for one thing, this is happening now and its
awesome. Their show at the Kearny Irish on February 20th was a great
big explosion and release of negative energy. They played with the fantastic Deep
Sleep from MD as well as Chronic Sick and Government Warning. The kids danced,
everyone went nuts and it was a true testament to where these guys are going.
Bringing people together through sophomoric punk rock should never go away and
with these guys around it doesn’t look like its going anywhere anytime soon.
