McRackins, Short and Sweet(EP)- Reto Koradi

It's only been a few weeks since we reviewed In On The Yolk!, the McRackins 4th album, and now the punk band dressed up as chickens and eggs is back already, meeting their promise to release 100 songs in 15 months. And while 8 songs would fill an epic albums with many bands, it's just good enough for a 14 minute EP for the McRackins.

Not surprisingly, not much has changed since the last time. The music is simple, fast, energetic, catchy, and fun. They out themselves as Flintstone fans in "Caveman" ("the dinosaurs are sleeping, please don't wake up old T-rex, Betty's gettin' horny, wachin' Wilma havin' sex."), and talk about their "Colorado Van Crash", where a blown tire almost ended their lives last year.

You can certainly find more carefully crafted records, but this is punk rock how it's meant to be. It doesn't even matter that they borrow a hook from the Beatles' "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" for "Mickey and Mallory".


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