the Dwarves

Editor's Review:

Through all the pop-y bullshit, all that cheese-ball, bro-bra crap masquerading as punk rock, there have been a few bands who have kept the torch of punk rock lit. The Dwarves are one of those bands. While their music does employ at times the clean channel, double time guitar and lightening fast kick drums beats mostly associated with new school punk bands ("How It’s Done"), but The Dwarves also know how to drop a bomb on your ass. With an adherence to tenets of metal, like relentlessly grinding riffage ("Over You"), and a foot planted squarely in the old-school of punk rock ("River City"), The Dwarves music is at the same time young-punk-friendly and old-school-savvy.

On top of the same old heavy duty punk rock ‘n’ roll, The Dwarves have also added some interesting, new elements. Being rooted in the Bay Area, it seems only natural for The Dwarves to enlist the talent of DJ Marz (Sacred Hoop, Latryx, Space Travelers) when they wanted to add some scratching to the mix ("Way Out"); to borrow the voice Luke Sick (Sacred Hoop, Brougham) when the band wanted extra amounts of drunken screaming; and some tunes even sport a pop-y sound, manifest mostly in songwriting and the addition of keys to the instrumentation ("Come Where the Flavor Is").

Don’t let this new flavor throw you, though. The Dwarves still know how to kick it hardcore, and they make that promise outright in the record’s first tune: "Lemme show ya’ how it’s done / it’s time to have some fuckin’ fun."

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Record Label Epitaph Released January 1980

Tracks How It's Done River City Over You Way Out Come Where The Flavor Is Deadly Eye Better Be Women I Want You To Die Johnny On The Spot Accelerator Act Like You Know Production Value