Girls Against Boys - You Can't Fight What You Can't See
(Jade Tree)
Girls Against Boys' new album, You Can't Fight What You Can't See, can be described with one word: pander. Perhaps no band has lost as many hardcore fans as Girls Against Boys did when they released their sole major label album, Freak*On*Ica. Miami bass, DJ scratching, and Warped Tour posturing, every move these one time bastions of cool made wreaked of marketability. After the album did poorly and corporations merged, Girls Against Boys was left without a label. That was four years ago. Now, Girls Against Boys is back. They shaved, put some clean clothes on, and are standing at your front door with a single rose and the stench of cheap cologne. They say they have learned from their mistakes. They say that everything that went wrong is right again. DO NOT BELIEVE THEM.
With this new album, Girls Against Boys is pandering to their old fans. In a not-so-earnest attempt to regain your respect, the Boys have created an album that seems initially not too far off from their last Touch and Go release, House of GVSB. They play the same sort of pulsating, bass-heavy sounds, and they sing that they "don't like Hollywood" on "300 Looks for the Summer." They sing it so many times, over and over again, that it seems cloying. They really want you to think they don't like Hollywood; they need for you to think that. Underneath, Girls Against Boys has become the most standard of rock bands, only with the bass mixed a little high. Now that's something that Geffen could have really sold!
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