Mad Caddies dropped their new album out on Fat Wreck Chords just in time for all those summer shows and festivals following and I am definitely gonna see them live soon in a month and a half and it is going to be awesome. In the meantime I listened and reviewed their new record for this webzine.

As you might have heard this is the album filled with covers of the bands that influenced Mad Caddies and which somehow had an effect on them as a band and as people. But, it is done in Mad Caddies way, meaning reggae and ska mixed with punkrock. As it usually goes, some songs are better, some are not so good, it depends on the listener´s personal point of view. In my opinion the best songs for me on this record are “She´s Gone(NOFX)” being a haunting reggae version of the original and featuring excellent back vocals by Aimee of The Interrupters, then “AM(Tony Sly)”, because it really resembles the original meaning of the song and adds to it the new vibe  and “Some Kind of Hate(Misfits) having a 50´s vibe that is what makes the original so special but also adding the new originality to the song. Also “Alien 8(Lagwagon)” is nice too. Those are my four favourites and that doesn´t mean that the other songs sre not good. Check it out because this is not the simple covers album, it is much more because Mad Caddies added a lot of originality to these songs and I love this album for that.

8/10

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