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(This Is Not) The First Time

Sour Cream & Onion isn't the most exciting chip flavour. In my opinion it's a flavour that often gets overlooked due to it's lack of flash, bang, POW! SC&O is an inoffensive flavour..which makes my next statement all the more surprising. A month ago I was on a road trip and I stumbled upon a bag of Sour Cream & Onion in a gas station, I grabbed them and have been pretty excited to pull open the bag since. The reason for this excitement..they're Covered Bridge. When I cracked the bag tonight and took a whiff, well..there isn't much to be said, SC&O is not the most fragrant flavour. The chips look like standard Covered Bridge, some skins and just the right ratio of perfectly browned chip to potato yellow. I tossed one in my mouth and was met with an evenly flavoured somewhat thick creamy SC&O seasoning. Every once in a while the actual potato chip shines through with some skin or browned potato flavour which just adds to the the SC&O flavour rather than overpowering it. The chips have a nice kettle cooked crunch without being overly greasy. As far as SC&O goes these are top notch. Not a contender for regular rotation but a damn good chip and .500 flavour.

When I learned late last year that Mikey Erg was putting out a solo album in 2016 I got pretty stoked. After all, Mikey Erg! (if you're not aware of Mr. Yannich's work, get on it..or not..it's your loss I guess). I avoided listening to any of the songs streamed on the internet leading up the albums release, I was waiting to just listen to it as a whole when I got the LP. That moment finally came last week when my copy of "Tentative Decisions" came in the mail. The white back drop with black and green minimalist album artwork (with a lot of white space) sets a sort of 60's tone before even putting needle to groove. There's no lyric sheet within the album. When listening to this album you can pick out some jangley 60's pop rock, some pop punk, hints of grunge..the album ends on a mellow droning song. All in all this is one solid ass (pop) rock album, that could have only been made by one Mikey Erg (produced by Jeff Rosenstock [making this album one of the best team ups since peanut butter and honey]). "Tentative Decisions" is not dorkrockcorkrod part deux, Erg's solo debut is more subdued than I anticipated but that's not at all a bad thing. Go get you some Erg.

Stay hydrated,
Marc

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