Review Summary: A very underrated album filled with catchy and fun songs that pop punk fans will love.
Chances are you may have heard of the Sloppy Meateaters and if you haven't then that's probably because they didn't really have a lot of mainstream success but they did play on a few warped tours and was even featured on the 2002 compilation of it along with performing on live tv on the show Farmclub.com. Shameless Self Promotion is a very good album filled with a lot of catchy songs and deserves your attention.
Josh Chambers can write a song and I call him an underrated writer because he is, his topics in this album arranges from him thinking about a girl he used to hang with in the song Outta Control to one about no one liking him and calling himself names in the song Nobody Likes Me and the guest girl vocalist on the last song which is the cover of the Screeching Weasel Love makes the cover good and funnier. He can pretty much make a good song in this genre and his whiny voice fits so well it just makes me wonder how he didn't get featured on any other album made by a different band because his voice is just perfect.
Along with the vocals being good the instruments are even better the drumming on this album is outstanding and the guitarist makes a lot of great tunes and it's to the point where if someone would play a song by them I would know who it was just like that because the guitar really stands out well and I don't really have much to say about the bass because it was really hard to hear it and they really should've turned the bass up a bit louder but it's not that big of a problem. One thing you should know is that this album was actually recorded by two people which was Josh Chambers and Kevin Highfield and they recorded it all by themselves and released it without a record label and you gotta give them credit for releasing an album at the time where they didn't even have a full band.
Now with all that being there are a few problems I have about this album it does get a bit repetitive and there are times when some songs sorta sounds the same and almost each song doesn't really have a ending and it just moves on to the next song it's not that big of a problem but I don't think half of an album should sound like that a few songs yes but almost half the album sounds like that and you sometimes forget you're on the next song and like I said earlier the bass should've been a bit louder.
It's a shame that this debut didn't get the attention it wanted because it should've it's filled with catchy and fun songs that people who like this genre will love and if they got attention they deserved they would of went big and they may not be playing anymore but people should still get into them better late than never they say.
