Portland Adult Entertainment: Bad Buzz EP The Mint Chicks
by kingofportlandEvocative, as every Mint Chicks release typically is, there is a significant level of nostalgia here. Whether singing about love and love lost as with Say Goodbye or drug-addled sex sold in the title track Bad Buzz, there’s a reflective attitude of almost harking-back, something that’s been rarely evident in a band that’s previously chosen to exist more in the now. It’s an almost romantically ironic take on the milieau of the changing modernism and naval gazing that was seen fifteen-to-twenty years ago. Pill popping prostitution and Eastern philosophy-riddled social echelons are targeted squarely – it’s a surprise that the band hasn’t based itself in the greater Manchestor or London area rather that Oregon, this release is just so time-synced with the England of that period. ABC Reharmonised falls somewhat flat as a form of needless luxury, a reforming of a primary school nursery rhyme that we’re no doubt all able to recall. But it does add to the reminiscence. The closer, You’ve Got Spray Paint In Your Third Eye, falls as near as any of the tracks on this EP do to the band’s earlier work – building with drum staccato, but then breaking into pop riffs and then a noisy finish to end with blips.