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Boo and Boo Too
No Tempo
Ironpaw/Chomp Records
Kansas-based Boo and Boo Too seem obsessed with death on their debut album No Tempo. Throughout his compositions, lead singer/guitarist Barrett Emke worries about an ice age destroying the world, seeing his friends mummified, and being murdered with a knife. The album is mostly hits with a few misses, starting out on a positive note with the chaotic, but catchy "I Know Nothing's All Right." The intricate, almost ethereal "Sometimes At Night" or the rushing "I'll Be Your Whore" find Emke yelling more than singing, while "Black Buggy" starts off melodic and dreamlike before shifting into a roar of guitars. "KGB" is softer than the other tracks and almost beautiful. Then you have "Obviously," which drones along, engulfed by, as another reviewer put it, their "wall of sound pop." They meant it as a compliment, but it's taken too far here. Similarly, the vocals are drowned out by the music in "Bottom of the Lake," and it's missing that bizarre ghost-like quality that makes the more successful tracks so interesting.
—Jessica Simons
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