Someone said Osker is the most hated band on Epitaph Records, for some strange reasons I didn’t even get that well…actually I believe they are good musicians, and if you consider their age, they are even better.I just wondered why on this record there is only Devon ( guitaris, singer) and Dave ( bass, backup vocals), while their old drummer is not in the band anymore.

After touring with such bands as Guttermouth, Millencolin, Automatic 7, after the debut album “Treatment 5″, of which I only heard a couple of songs like “Panic”, “Lucky” and “Alright” ( I mean, the PunkORama songs) that I liked pretty much, the second album from Osker, “Idle Will Kill”, is a bit different from those songs I heard from their old work ( not even that old, as it was released last year) and probably this new record shows how Osker grow up in the producton, and did the things with their own time, hitting the studio with Mike Trujillio (Choking Victim, Leftover Crack) as producer.

If on “Treatment5″ they sounded with some influences from Rancid and the pop-punk world ( like Green Day ) , “Idle Will Kill” is a 14 tracks album that is more oriented through emotion, both in the lyrics ( that are more personal) and in the music; it has some kind of slow songs (as “Motionless”) and even if the opening “Patience” is a semi-acoustic song, the record has some fast tracks too, like “Strangled” and “Piece By Piece”. Another positive thing of this record is the voice of the singer, that is someway unique: when you listen to a Osker song, you probably know it is Osker’s, there are not other similar singers with his voice in the punk scene today.

The words of Devon, the singer, are enough to make understand what Osker is about, according to his definition of “punk”: “Punk is doing what you want despite the infiltrators, outside of the skateboards and shoes and hair and patches and the diets and the tattoo.”