Are You Receiving Me? — Modern Action

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“Radioactive Boy” b/w “Problem Child”
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Decent pop punk of the Lookout variety. (Is “Lookout” sufficient at this point in history, or do we need specify bands? If the latter holds true: Green Day, Screeching Weasel.) Neither cut is as urgent as the band’s last single. I like both songs when they come along on a mix but I don’t seek them out. (One beef: “Problem Child” should be the a-side. That would suggest a bit of a story, the child in question growing up to be Radioactive Boy, ruler of the post-apocalypse. Thus, a concept 7” would be born.)

— Mike Faloon