Taking the retro slotcar highway down pop-punk highway comes 30 Amp Fuse. This sounds very similar to a host of other bands also competing in this race including Super Deluxe, The Tories and many more.
This band has nothing new to offer…heck, they're a guitar based trio…how much can you do with that? But the album doesn't drag because it's 15 songs of pop delight.
They can be fun live, in your stereo, or in your head as you incessantly sing songs like "Love Is A Catch 22" and "I Fall Down".
A bundle of energy that always keeps you going. No shame here…I like this stuff!

Agent Rogerz at spinme.com ----------------------------------------------------------------

Yay! Punk album! Or Punk-Pop to be more precise. Anyway, what we have here is 15 tracks spanning a whole 40 minutes, so thats, what, 2:30 minutes a song? Cool! Who needs epic 8 minute long, orchestral tracks, when you've got punk?
30 Amp Fuse are a US band out of Tennessee. Guess they didn't want to watch the recently relocated Oilers play American Football, so they made an album.
I'd not heard much by the band prior to this, but what I had heard gave me a good idea what to expect. Its a pretty predictable album. But who cares? I think everyone needs an album like this. It doesn't take itself too seriously, heck, most of the tracks are love songs. But its pop too, right? So that doesn't matter. Pretty much each and every song has its own merits, they are not too similar, none of them drag, and, well, it just rocks. And its fast. :o)
Standout track for me is "Tilt-A-Whirl", which has cool guitar noises at various points. Extremely catchy and fast. You'll be singing it for a while. "Sleeping with the Enemy" has fun lyrics, and nice melody. Its a bit different in a way to most of the stuff, so stands out. "Blastin' Room" (which, if I remember rightly is a b-side off a single) absolutely rocks, top notch. Repeat this sort of thing for virtually every track on here. If you forced me to pick out a duffer, then perhaps final track "Sound On Sound" (which isn't really a proper song anyway), but apart from that its great. Theres the 100mph "Whatever It Was", and cool singles "Punk Virtuoso" and "I Fall Down". "Over the Hill" is another solid track and is one of the few to verge away from the love / relationships theme, and covers the "joys" of discovering you're old.
It's not original - I don't know much by Green Day, but I bet fans of them would find this to their liking. China Drum fans who like their earlier punky stuff should go for it too. An un-complicated, un-pretencious, feel good album. Almost every song is catchy enough to bury itself in your head for a while. You might forget it after a while, but you'll come back to listen again before long. Add on the cool album title, and the funky picture of a woman holding up a burning scalextric car on the back of the box, and you have a quality package.
This album was a very pleasant surprise for me, so I'll take that element away for you. Just go buy it.

Rating: 8/10