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Brain is Floating

The Raging Nathans play '94 influenced pop punk. You would have never guessed based on the cover of their newest album Cheap Fame . Somewhat snotty melodic vocals with some nice harmonies. The tempos are up, I bet Raging Nathans shows have super fun pits without attracting those annoying spin kicking change picking up twats (there's some heat, but it's not brutally heavy). Nice galloping bass lines throughout the album. In contrast to the music, the lyrics get quite dark and sad. These guys would fit in on a tour with Dear Landlord, The Copyrights or (not just because they share a member) The Dopamines. Great album. I've only had a few spins at this point but with each flip of the LP it gets better and better, 'tis a catchy one. I'd recommend picking up the album from Rad Girlfriend Records..or you can download it and pay what you want at their bandcamp.

It's that time again, another completely necessary blog about a bag of chips brought home from my recent trip south of the border, Blazin' Buffalo & Ranch Doritos. The chips are your standard Doritos weight crunch and such, if you don't know what that means I don't understand why you're reading a chip blog. Seasoning, standard Doritos coverage, fairly well distributed with the odd chip that's light on seasoning. Do these chips warrant the "Blazin' " in their name..no, do they have a bit of a kick, yeah. They're slightly mellower but not too far off from most jalapeno based seasonings for the heat levels. They taste like your standard buffalo seasoning..took me a minute to put my finger on it but it's very similar to Kernels bold buffalo wing popcorn seasoning. I think I'm picking up on a little bit of ranch seasoning..buy maybe that's implanted into my head through the name making my taste buds find something that really isn't there. Either way these are decent Doritos, if Blazin' was stricken from their name it would be pretty apt..but then it wouldn't be a Doritos flavour name with unnecessary verbs.


Stay hydrated,
Marc

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