"Portions For Fatties" - People Person
All rowdy buzzpop and abuse of crash cymbals, People Person's Dumb Supper was let off its chain into the greater internet on October 8th.
It feels very much influenced by the riotous DIY of decades past, full of grooving bass lines and heavy percussion. Oliver's vocal tone doesn't vary vastly, largely a melodic croon that's at some times more apt for punk and at others more folk-friendly. The music itself is aggressively different at times, best illustrated by the contract between the rowdiness of first single "Portions For Fatties" and the back porch, down home tambre of second single and album closer "Frances."
Alternately raucous and affecting, propulsive and plaintive, Dumb Supper offers a smarter meal of punk aesthetic and memories of melodies past.