I need to go back and listen to some of NICK OWEN‘s other bandcamp releases, cuz I’m pretty sure I heard some of them, but they apparently didn’t hit me as hard as his latest, released in January, called MANIFESTO. Four widely diverse takes on “un-punk” punk (that is, not “punk”), each a winner.

We have real deal indie rock with attitude in “What’s The Point?”. Some ED SCHRADER, maybe MINUTEMEN vibes on “Childhood” & “PMA”, and “Manifesto” there at the end to cool things out. All of it exists to tell us to open our minds. Listen to this guy, jeez. Certainly Concord, MA’s finest. Many more underground, and otherwise off-pop releases in this young man (the Street Popsicle)’s future I hope. Digging these four songs A LOT.