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Punk Rock Pool Party

by The Explainers

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Freedumb 02:12
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2.
Better Than Me 02:53
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3.
It's Okay to Touch Yourself 02:25
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4.
Fire or the Ledge 02:46
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Guns Guns Guns 02:56
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Azalea Fuss 03:13
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Staten Island Xmas 01:55
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Babies With Rabies 01:56
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Kindness 02:50
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You Suck 02:39
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11.
Bridge Over the River Crass 01:08
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12.
This Is Fine 02:00
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13.
Atomic Super Truck 01:25
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The Explainers' 3rd LP features songs that range from the sublime to the ridiculous as per usual. They pay blatant homage to artists they admire like The Ramones in the intro and chorus of "Freedumb" (who ripped it off from Bay City Rollers) and Crass in "Bridge Over the River Crass". "Freedumb" has fun with a favorite target, ignorant people who support the status quo because they have no empathy. Next "Better Than Me" gets into the class struggle and stylistically verges into Oi. "It's Okay To Touch Yourself" which has an important message for younger listeners as well as another musical homage, this time to The Who. "Fire or the Ledge" was loosely inspired by the victims of the World Trade Center disaster as well as a local apartment building fire. Toxic patriotism and man's inhumanity to man takes center stage in the songs, "Guns Guns Guns" and "Kindness". A local springtime festival with antebellum aspirations gets roasted in "Azalea Fuss". The band's favorite TV show (What We Do In The Shadows) gets a holiday treatment in the song "Staten Island Xmas". "Babies With Rabies" is about a family with too many kids and an aversion to vaccines. The band continues to support sexual freedom as in previous recordings with the song "You Suck", an ode to the hypocritical religious right figures who keep turning out not so straight and narrow in their own personal lives. "This is Fine" is based on the famous cartoon dog meme but as interpreted through Greta Thunberg's quote "Our house is on fire". "Atomic Super Truck" was written from the POV of a horsepower aficionado who doesn't give a damn about anyone else on the road.

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released December 23, 2021

Sean Calamity: Vocals
Flex Tillerson: Guitar and backing vox
Sarah Suckadee Slanders: Drums and backing vox
Skat McCrory: Bass and backing vox

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The Explainers Wilmington, North Carolina

The Explainers started as a way to deal with the bizarro land of the 2010s through musical expression. We had been friends for years and never played music together until one fateful evening in August 2018. With satirical lyrics and a mission to make every song sound different from the others we have played a million shows in Wilmington since then, looking to branch out to your town! ... more

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