This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
July08, music reviews August 8th, 2008
By Travis Fristoe, July 2008
Convertible, Plan-It-X South Records
In a better Florida, Pensacola’s This Bike is a Pipe Bomb would be awarded a lifetime- achievement grant. For unpretentious greatness. For using traditional instruments in a punk context to create Southern anthems as resounding as anything on Smithsonian Folkways. Fourteen songs here in under 25 minutes, and less upbeat than before. Instead, they get more amplified and morose, focusing on deaths and gentrification in their neighborhood, hurricanes and minimum-wage jobs. “How do I sing this to a black family? How do I sing this to a white family? Same ol’ song got sung to me,” Rymodee hollers, and I trust you understand.
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This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
July08, music reviews August 8th, 2008
By Travis Fristoe, July 2008
Convertible, Plan-It-X South Records
In a better Florida, Pensacola’s This Bike is a Pipe Bomb would be awarded a lifetime- achievement grant. For unpretentious greatness. For using traditional instruments in a punk context to create Southern anthems as resounding as anything on Smithsonian Folkways. Fourteen songs here in under 25 minutes, and less upbeat than before. Instead, they get more amplified and morose, focusing on deaths and gentrification in their neighborhood, hurricanes and minimum-wage jobs. “How do I sing this to a black family? How do I sing this to a white family? Same ol’ song got sung to me,” Rymodee hollers, and I trust you understand.
