Albums
Lose All Time
2007
Genre: Alternative
Release Date: 2007
By Adam Moerder
Reviewed July 6, 2007
Album number two from aggro-new wavers sheds a few exclamation points and exhibits signs of maturity, but still retains its share of explosive basslines and nifty hooks.
Since the release of You Say Party! We Say Die!'s first album in 2005, the ante's been upped on their brand of fiery, female-led dance-punk. Blatantly spawned from the Pretty Girls Make Graves/YYYs c. 2004 model of aggro-new wave, their debut, , parlayed exclamatory song titles and chic leftist propaganda into a formidable album that dropped at a opportunistic time. The genre hasn't exactly experienced a sea change since, but new acts like Love is All and Be Your Own Pet have necessitated a more nuanced spin for dance party melee albums. Just ask Pretty Girls, Thunderbirds are Now! or Le Tigre-- you can milk one, maybe two, solid records by strictly adhering to the dance-spaz formula, but this fundamentalism ages poorly.