{"id":32376,"date":"2012-11-07T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-great-lakes-usa-live-fast-die\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T01:28:07","slug":"album-review-great-lakes-usa-live-fast-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-great-lakes-usa-live-fast-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Great Lakes USA &#8211; Live Fast. Die Whenever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/greatlakesusa1.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">Every now and then I enjoy a bit of gruff punk; Hot Water Music, Off With Their Heads, Dear Landlord. But the problem I often find with it is that it all sounds the same. Boston\u2019s <strong>Great Lakes USA <\/strong>then; it\u2019s alright and it\u2019s musically capable, but I found myself utterly bored by its formulaic approach to &ldquo;gruff punk&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">From record opener <em>\u2018No Girlfriends\u2019<\/em>, <em>\u2018Live Fast, Die Whenever\u2019<\/em> is stale.\u00a0Maybe I\u2019m jaded and just don\u2019t get it anymore. It\u2019s a haze of power chords, pounding drums and throat straining vocals. This used to be right up my street, but tastes change and mature. Lyrically it\u2019s a bit clich\u00e9 too. Self-deprecating lyrics of lost love and wanting to change your mistakes. I\u2019d rather change the record.\u00a0<!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>&amp;lt;a href=&ldquo;http:\/\/blacknumbers.bandcamp.com\/album\/live-fast-die-whenever&rdquo; data-mce-href=&ldquo;http:\/\/blacknumbers.bandcamp.com\/album\/live-fast-die-whenever&rdquo;&amp;gt;Live Fast, Die Whenever by Great Lakes USA&amp;lt;\/a&amp;gt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It chugs along in a similar fashion throughout, aping its predecessors records, a couple of tracks showed promise. The faster ones that seemed to just push forward worked better than the others <em>&lsquo;Rambling Dudes Forever&rsquo;<\/em> and <em>&#8216;Drink and Stagger&rsquo;<\/em> stood out as the most interesting. They rage along at a breakneck pace, drums and guitars just racing forward pushing through everything in their path, it works well, and more of it would have been welcome. If the band had put those two tracks on a split I\u2019d have probably dug that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s not that <strong>Great Lakes USA<\/strong> are a bad band, not by any stretch, the vocals are decent, the musicianship is good, with some interesting guitar work and driving drums. The problem is there are just too many bands doing this. I\u2019ve heard it all before, and I don\u2019t have much desire to hear it again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">1\/5<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&#8216;Live Fast, Die Whenever&rsquo;<\/em> by <strong>Great Lakes USA<\/strong> is out now on <strong>Black Numbers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Great Lakes USA<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greatlakesboston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/wearegreatlakes.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Words by Ryan Clayton (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clayton_ryan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Clayton_Ryan<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then I enjoy a bit of gruff punk; Hot Water Music, Off With Their Heads, Dear Landlord. But the problem I often find with it is that it all sounds the same. Boston\u2019s Great Lakes USA then; it\u2019s alright and it\u2019s musically capable, but I found myself utterly bored by its formulaic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8181],"tags":[5879,3911,14162,14163],"class_list":["post-32376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-post","tag-album-reviews","tag-black-numbers","tag-great-lakes-usa","tag-live-fast-die-whenever"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Album Review: Great Lakes USA - Live Fast. 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