Skeletal Records – Sundae Bloody Sundae Split

Why do I suddenly feel like I am back in high school as I listen to Sundae Bloody Sundae? The new sampler out by Skeletal Lighting has four bands on four different tracks miming my junior-year Limewire account (if that doesn’t date me at all).  

Fat Heaven by  The World Is A Beautiful Place sounds like Cursive but morbid and more suburban in its critique of consumption. The Weather Chart (Spirit Night) by Rozwell Kid is about mundane romanticism ala Weezer or The Rentals, and has guitar riffs to back up that comparison. Softserve by Kittyhawk is probably the best tune on the collection, mixing a Straylight Run vibe with a bit of Tegan and Sarah. Beji’s Cool Times Summer Jamz”by Two Knights is classic emocore, squeaky chorus and all. It gives the Kittyhawk track a run for their money, but only by half a length. It is short and feels incomplete. 

Sundae Bloody Sundae sound a little incomplete and has me asking for more from Skeletal Lighting.  Dessert and dissent before tea and all that.