- by James Kirsch
- Monday, November 15, 2004
Youâll have already crossed paths with Steriogram if you had the misfortune to hear their single âWalkie Talkie Manâ playing over the recent iPod ad. Whilst that was more irritating and only a little more tuneful than a child crying in a cinema, theyâve really topped themselves with âSchmackâ. Steriogram are The Bloodhound Gang without the sense of humour, a cash in by the suits at EMI on the childish rap-punk hybrid Sum41 had the courtesy to leave behind. Either that or someone somewhere is still buying DogEatDog albums. The poor misguided fools.This is a lesson in knocking heads; the second-rate Terrorvision riffing of âWalkie Talkie Manâ is almost passable next to such moronic excuses for songs as the whinging âRoadtripâ. A refrain of âIf youâre pretty câmonâ on the title track sounds like a Vanilla Ice take on Hootie and The Blowfish, and will subsequently make you want to drill straight through your skull. If you make it as far as the DJ deck scratching on âWhite Trashâ without attacking your stereo with a sledgehammer then youâll certainly be searching the garden shed for increasingly elaborate and violent weapons once âFat and Proudâ hits you with itâs âBig Boyeeee Soundâ. Swinging lyrically between clichĂ©d unimaginative nonsense and equally clichĂ©d hip hop posturing, Steriogram must have a collective reading age no larger than their drummers shoe size. Not even half decent starts to 'Be Good To Me' or âIn The Cityâ are saved from Tyson Kennedyâs grating Beastie Boy-lite impersonations.
In brief this is over produced, predictable, annoying, nonsensical rubbish with less substance than Saturday morning TV. Steriogram probably call women âchicksâ and sit around laughing about how they got thrown out of a kegger once. Someone should mention to them how gleefully we all watched the death of Nu Metal and the dumb frat-boy mentality. Itâs not big and itâs not clever. Hereâs hoping they follow their flash-in-the-pan CD-UK appearance with a quick, quiet and very permanent disappearance.
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