The Copyrights

Make Sound

[3/5] The Copyrights are being hyped as pop-punk’s current saviors, a claim that somehow manages to ask too much while damning with faint praise. It may be pop-punk, but it neatly sidesteps all the bullshit bands like Blink-182 have done to ruin it for everyone. This sounds like something Lookout! Records would have been into back when playing your guitar like a Ramone was all it took, although the lyrics are closer to early Replacements in places (or trying to get there, at least). In an opening track that includes a harmonica solo (“Immovable Object”), the band are convinced “life’s better lived in smaller lengths of time,” but the moment of truth comes later, looking back on 1994: “Made excuses to not like Green Day but we wore the tape out anyway.” (RED SCARE) Ed Masley