Remember when rock and roll was chaotic, unpredictable, completely off the wall, and completely out of it’s mind? Remember those records in your collection you throw on when company comes over and then you all proceed to get good and inebriated? Remember when rock and roll was fun? I have a feeling these are just some of the ideals this wacky (and quite possibly drunken) foursome are trying to bring back into the light by creating songs such as these. If you don’t know Fresh Meat out of Toronto there’s a good chance you soon will, they’ve been carving out themselves quite a niche in the Toronto club scene over the past year, including their own night down at the Kathedral, the first Monday of every month(which yes go see them if you get a chance). As I mentioned the word “fun” isn’t really associated with rock anymore and it’s a shame really. This EP is 5 songs that while pretty musically proficient are also just outright fun to listen to, just down and dirty hook laden rock that sounds like a hybrid of Motorhead and the B-52s, and really any 80’s glam rock band. I suppose it also helps that singer Tina Gravelson has quite a set of pipes on her (that’s pipes folks get your mind out of the gutter), and powers her way through the songs rather nicely. Rock these days is overproduced, and for the most part contrived. In a world where a band like Jet and The Darkness are praised as “trashy” a band like Fresh Meat is a godsend. Well maybe not a GODsend, probably from something further in the south. If you’re sitting there trying to take apart the musicianship, trying to interpret the lyrics, complaining how they might occasionally go out of tune then I feel you’ve missed the point of all this entirely, if you’re looking for overproduced then by all means look elsewhere, if you’re looking for a good time call http://www.thisisfreshmeat.com -Brent Lockman of No Official Capacity Magazine