I never heard of The Catheters before this album called “Static Delusions And Stone-Still Days” and I really don’t know what this band is doing on Sub Pop, or what Sub Pop is trying to do releasing this band, maybe trying to sell as much as The Hives did. The Catheters sound like a mix of rock’n'roll and old style punk rock, even tough there is a good amount of easy listening melodies and catchy choruses; just because the punk rock is named “old” this does not mean it’s no good.

The record is made of 13 songs and is more than half an hour long, and these four dudes play their music quite loud, from the beginning “Been There Before” till the last “What Have They Done To You?”, even if there are some slow moments as in “Bleary Haze” and “Clock on the Wall”, which is 5 minutes long. Anyway the majority of the songs are fast and packed, in pure rock’n'roll style, as “3000 Ways” and “Nothing”: a mix of The Hives and The Hellacopters, even if, as I said before , there are also some pop influences that anyway I think they could not make this band easily available to the masses; I mean, it’s not just noise what you hear on these tunes. The attitude of this band is quite explicit tough: “f–k you we do what we wanna do”-music straight in your face!

In the end, I do not feel to suggest this album to anyone who is into Blink182 and Sum41 too much, but if you are open minded, like fast rock’n'roll influenced punk rock filled with some noises, then, The Catheters have good chances to become your next favourite bands. |carlo@staff.truepunk.com