Review: Anarchy Club - A Single Drop of Red

Label: self-released CD Baby

Released: March 4, 2008

Okay, I'll admit White Zombie was kinda fun...for about ten minutes. I don't know that I could ever take them in album-length doses. When the first track of A Single Drop of Red was nothing short of an homage to White Zombie, it was already off on the wrong foot. Unfortunately, it never recovered. Their focus on 90s shock-rockers like Zombie, and to lesser extent Danzig and Marilyn Manson, doesn't really give them much to work with. After all, these bands used their horror shtick to draw focus away form their generally boring tunes. Anarchy Club skips the novelty of the slasher movie mentality, but that merely exposes the shortcomings of their songwriting. Their cover of Sweet's "No You Don't" robs the song of it's fun pop sense and further shows Anarchy Club's inability to tap into what made their influences tick. The remixes that make up the second half of the album are really just a third-rate stab at NIN's gift for melding hard rock and electronica that sadly errs on the side of hard rock. At their best, Anarchy Club are a thinly veiled White Zombie tribute. At their worst, they're a celebration of all that was terrible in 90s shock rock.

Ratings
Satriani: 5/10
Zappa: 2/10
Dylan: 2/10
Aretha: 2/10
Overall: 3/10

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