Review → Morgan Knockers – 475 EP (2006)
Morgan Knockers - 475 EP
The Morgan Knockers are a Boston-based street punk band, whose only concern is kicking out some great, energetic punk. On this, their 2006 EP, they take 5 tracks and by the end, if you’re not moving, you might not be human. Robots are of course welcome to keep reading, but you’ll be missing out.
The EP starts with (perhaps pretentiously?) “Intro to Pembroke St.,” a nearly-minute-long track that features some ambient noise, a couple cymbals being hit, building guitar feedback, that sort of thing. It’s not much of a build-up, and I honestly can’t figure out why they thought it was a good idea. But it goes by pretty quickly, and the listener is rewarded with “Pembroke St.,” which I’d say is the highlight of the EP. The song is catchy, the chorus, with its gang vocals, begs to be shouted along to.
The rest of the EP’s tracks are pretty standard Boston street punk numbers, reminiscent of other local bands like the Ducky Boys, and the early material from the Dropkick Murphys (specifically Do or Die); sometimes the backing vocals bear more than a passing resemblance to the vocals by DKM’s Ken Casey, most notably on “Pop the Cork.”
The EP blazes along, and it’ll be over before you know it, and while the songs may not show a lot of musical variation, the whole thing flies by so quickly, and the band is so good at what they do, that the listener won’t mind.
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