Loud. Fast. Dirty.
You want punk rock? You’ll get it here with Some Kind of Nightmare’s 2023 EP, Critical Thoughts.
Relentless guitar, bass that is sure to make itself heard, and drums that could remind someone of a 4th of July fireworks finale. All that settled in just under duo vocalists who seem to eat nails for breakfast, sans milk.
Skidding through the speakers, “Inner City Story” commences the EP with galloping bass and drums that is sure to get the heart rate up and make you drive a little faster while pounding the roof of your car.
“Vilified” brings us back to the classic mix of punk and rock and roll. Just a handful of chords and an attitude that would make Joan Jett proud.
“Everything’s OK” is a high intensity protest for anybody who’s tried voicing their disappointment in current events, only to have local peacemakers make their presence known.
Critical Thoughts is an EP that makes no secret as to what it wants to be and what its trying to sell you. A blistering sample of the punk rock Some Kind of Nightmare has been putting out for more than a decade.
Loud. Fast. Dirty.
Curtis grew up in Michigan on classic rock. Luckily, there were family members who were there to introduce him to other genres of music not traditionally on the radio, like blues and punk. Then the internet opened up the floodgates to genres and subgenres of music that he never knew existed, like folk punk. Even today, he’s learning about niche styles and diving head first into the menagerie of artists who’ve settled in those parts years before him. Now, he gets to use those new influences and mangle them up into his own music and make it as weird as he’d like.