:!: Punk whine, not happy punk.

the sludgy guitars work OK in the verse but it feels like they get a bit lost in the chorus. This does a good job of being perky and upbeat but doesn't really stick with me.

You always sound like you're trying to affect a "rock star" voice and it doesn't do much for me. I'd be interested to hear you singing without this artificial twang. Again, like BSS, at least this isn't downbeat but it's hardly brimming with joy.

Love the guitar noodling and disharmonious Liz Phair harmony. It's interesting, but not really feeling particularly happy or hooked. Execution: B-, concept: B-, hooks: B-

I'm now well into double figures for the number of listens to all of the songs but, unlike some of the others, I couldn't really hum a note of this unless it was playing. The mix is a bit flat, so I don't really feel like I'm actually in a room with a band. The drums seem far too up front compared to the other instruments and the vocals have a little too much theatricality in them for my tastes. It is very upbeat though!

I like that little spoken part at the beginning but I'm not a huge fan of the sung vocal delivery through the rest of the song--works best for me where you have the harmonies going and/or the parts where you play with your delivery and attitude, like your vox flipping up at the end of a line. The drum fills have a similarly distracting quality to BYD's. I like the crunchiness of the guitars and at parts this reminds me of Bikini Kill. My biggest issue with this is that the lyrics feel like they were thrown in there at random; they flow like prose that someone asked you to deliver over music, not like song lyrics. Positive message, so I think you meet the challenge well from that standpoint, but the music again doesn't sound especially happy to me.