THE INDECISION ALARM

"s/t" - CD-EP

The Indecision Alarm - S/T - Tic Tac Totally (JP)

I
am a old punkrocker by now. I turned 31 in march and I still getting
older, day by day. I started listening to Punkrock in the middle of 93.
I started with Bad Religion, Pearl Jam, Dead Kennedys, Propagandhi, The
Offspring and Ten Foot Pole. Man, back at that time I even had hair!
Then, in 94´ the skatepunk scene from Sweden slopped over to Germany.
Man, I was so in love with all those killer great bands, like Lapdog,
Stoned, The Hives (yes, they we´re a skatepunk band back in the days.
Check out their first release on Sidekick records, man!), Millencolin,
No Fun At All, Satanic Surfers, Randy, Pridebowl and at least ADHESIVE.
Yes, Adhesive was an extraordinary example for great music. They played
unbelieveable catchy melodies in the vein of Bad Religion, Lagwagon and
Craig´s Brother. All their releases gave me a blast. Their EP Yoghurt,
their LP Sideburners and their best material to date: From Left to
right, showed me, what punkrock means: Honesty!
Adhesive was
honest and they had impressive lyrics. Not the normal fucked up stuff,
like beeing blue and beeing in love with girls. No, Adhesive had the
guts, to talk about politics and about posers in the punkrock scene -
right, Mr. Fashionclown? (The initiated people know, what I mean here).
Then the members from Adhesive had the wish to change their music and
so they produced a kind of street punk album (in 2000 ?) with Mirko
Talazik. This record turned out pretty bad and I know, that a lot of
people (including me) were pretty disappointed. One of the best bands
has become pretty worse. After that release Adhesive quit their job.
Everyone in the band had other goals. Robert has become a designer,
Micke an psychologist-nurse and father and Geir workes in a supermarket
for vegetarian food. Later on I once met him on the road with Satanic
Surfers).
Now, in 2007 the world finally becomes better again. A
new band on the punkrock sky is there: I am talking about THE
INDECISION ALARM - the kick ass machine from Sweden, consisting of the
ex-forces from Adhesive. Man, an old man´s heart has become blue again
and so I was shaking, when I found THE INDECISION ALARM in my mail. I
put the record in my player and there it was:
The mega flash! The
damn small record kicked my ass so bad and I can find so many parallels
to ADHESIVE again. The voice, the pure guitars, the ass-kicking drums
and well - at least - the back up vocals. But THE INDECISION ALARM is
not Adhesive. It is not that high gleamy skatepunk stuff, that the band
was known for. No! TIA has turned out pretty much rawer, than any of
their releases before. This is an experiment:
Put the record into
your player. What do you feel reminded to? I feel reminded to "I SPY´s
- REVENGE OF THE LITTLE SHITS" (I SPY is The Rod´s old band. The Rod
plays in Propagandhi now). The Incecision Alarm is balm to my soul!
Those raw voices collide with super fast drums, angry guitars and
slamming melodies. The record is a huge sucsess - if you´re ignore the
bad recording quality. Anyway. TIA is highly recommended from P76 and
so you definitely need to buy or steal this record.

– Oliver @ Punk76.com, July 2007

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