Consumer Guide Album

The Front Bottoms: Talon of the Hawk [Bar/None, 2013]
Why hasn't somebody famous covered the lead "Au Revoir (Adios)," the kind of sure shot with a punch line that can inspire college graduates to spend their early twenties on the road because it beats the day jobs they don't have anyway. Nor are the tale of Brian Sella's space-age crystals versus his mother's lottery habit or the one that keeps repeating "I got so stoned I fell asleep in the front seat" or definitely the one that goes "I wanna be stronger than your dad was for your mom" low-fat cottage cheese. Deep, not especially. But far from dumb, meaning deep enough. Tuneful enough too. A-