Punchy
Just My Type (Pinch Hit)

originally published in Space City Rock, Fall 2003

With their crunchy but not punky guitars and just a hint of country threading through Just My Type, Austin band Punchy sound like they’re channeling post-breakthrough Soul Asylum. And like Dave Pirner, echoes of whose phrasing and delivery creep into his otherwise dissimilar voice, main songwriter Fritz Beer has never met a metaphor that he couldn’t run into the ground. The big difference is that where major-label Soul Asylum, just by playing the odds, occasionally came up with a handful of keepers to counteract the obviousness and clumsiness that Pirner never knew how to filter out, Just My Type lacks a single spectacular, or even solid, song to use as a deposit for a down payment on the future.

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