The Cribs

men's needs women's needs whatever (2007)

sometimes, there's nothing like some good punk rock.  granted, the cribs are a little commercial to call straight punk, but their rough-edged pop songs just feel good to listen to.  it makes sense, though, because the three bothers from england have been playing together since they were just nine and five years old.  the album was produced by alex kapranos of franz ferdinand, and there is definitely a strong strokes influence, and once in a while some weezer-esque things pop up, and the shouting background vocals remind me of cursive, but the cribs are definitely doing something of their own in this album.  it's a progression in the genre that i welcome warmly.  here's "men's needs."