This is a split four-song punk-rock EP with two songs each from Southern California's Dad Brains and Philadelphia's Ramoms, the latter being a female Ramones cover band. The Dad Brains are loud, fast and thrashy, and their "It's Christmas Time" is a litany of the ways in which the magic of Christmas is a letdown, and "Grinch" is an even faster and thrashier repudiation of the famed Dr. Seuss character, that drags Rudolph "behind the merch table." The Ramoms repurpose "Chinese Rocks," the Dee Dee Ramone co-write for the Johnny Thunders version of The Heartbreakers, as "Lego Blocks," and they cover "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)." Nice way for these folks to keep the spirit of 1977 alive in 2018.
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