wikipedia tells me that the mint chicks refer to their style of music as 'troublegum'. cute! they were a loud fast face full of noise this morning, and while it took me a while to get back into them, their first full-length album was actually a bloody good listen. for some reason i was convinced this morning that the very pop-end of pop-punk tune 'i don't want to grow old' was a cover. treacherous whench indeed, turns out it's an original. but i think it was used in an ad campaign which makes it seem altogether too familiar.
i deliberately chose their earliest album as the roughest and readiest, and it didn't disappoint. reminiscent of the music i grew up on - the deconstructed mildly agressive sounds of the ramones, the sex pistols, the buzzcocks, the dead kennedys: that glorious, harsh noise. released on the flying nun label, it's little wonder this album made me nostalgic for loud hard nights on cheap crap beer in dunedin.
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