Big D & the Kids Table, “For the Damned the Dumb and the Delirious” LP

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For the Damned the Dumb and the Delirious
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On Big D & the Kids Table‘s new album, For the Damned the Dumb and the Delirious, they return to the ska-punk sound that first got them attention. This album sounds like the best of every other “regular” album they’ve done, which can be seen as a positive for anyone who was put off by the experimentation of Fluent In Stroll. Right off the bat, the band kicks out a song that is vintage ’90s third wave. “Walls” blends the toasting elements of the Pilfers and the Agents with the “punk rock with horns” of Link 80, and the Slackers’ organ work. It’s a pastiche of every song I ever heard in 1997, and it works wonderfully.
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