Album Review: Goldfinger – The Knife

GOLDFINGER’S first album in almost a decade finds them in refreshingly rejuvenated form. Opening track ‘A Million Miles’ flies out of the speakers with wild offspring abandonment while ‘Get What I Need’ is a premier, convertible coming of age, Road Trip/Pie soundtrack tune, dude – By Guy Shankland. The autobiographical age dilemma examination of ‘Am I Deaf’ leads into the reflective laconic tequila based hangover anthem ‘Tijuana Sunrise’. The Dub infused ‘Don’t Let Me Go’ is a deceptively catchy, like Men At Work tickling The Police while 2-Tone paddles in the surf. Both ‘Beacon’ and ‘Who’s Laughing Now’ follow the standard well trodden high tempo crescendo Less, Glory, Fish chorus path. The riff on ’Say It Out Loud’ is The Jam’s ‘A Town Called Malice’ given a L.A sunshine makeover. ‘See You Around’ has a heavy Blink 182 backbone, in a complete contrast ‘Lift Off’ has a tangible good time, chart freindly 90’s Punk-Lite Pop edge. Goldfinger have covered all their genre bases with ‘The Knife’, it’s insightful, good time, bad time American Ska-Punk at it‘s finest. A bouncing home run return]

GOLDFINGER
THE KNIFE
Rise Records
8.5/10