Guttermouth – Eat Your Face

After two slightly lack luster albums, Guttermouth have returned to their old punk rock roots with their newest album Eat Your Face. With their last album, Gusto, the band experimented a lot. Trying new things like acoustic and electro things, just take a listen to the horrible track of Lemon Water and you’ll understand. Here, Guttermouth just play straight our punk rock.

Don’t get me wrong, the band is just as funny as ever. On Eat Your Face, they have songs about losing your hairpiece (Ocotopus Hairpiece), they insult each other (Wasted Lives), killing your neighbor’s baby (My Neighbor’s Baby), fighting for your rights to party and bare arms (NRAA), hot-dog-as-a-penis metaphor (Hot Dog To The Head), and of course the obvious I Read It On A Bathroom Wall In Reno. The songs are all still humorous and quirky, but fly at you at a much quicker speed. The songs are harsher, quicker, shorter, and faster then before. Musically, they don’t do much to expand your knowledge, but they tried that with Gusto and failed, so it’s good that they just stick to their old roots.

Guttermouth‘s Eat your Face gives a much needed kick to the saturated punk scene. The songs are fast, good old fashion punk rock, which is nice to hear. It doesn’t get boring, I’ve listened to it maybe 20 times over the past 2 days and am still enjoying it. You find yourself singing along with certain parts of the songs, although a lot of the time you need the booklet to help lead the way. Guttermouth have made an album here that is sure to piss people off, but that is their intention. Just take a look at the chorus from The Next Faux Mohican, “Some people come here to take a crap, I come here to leave one!“