Mission Creep

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Banned Books Mission Creep

You have probably never heard of banned books.  I hadn’t either until running into singer, Zane Kanevsky, while promoting my very own launch party.  I handed him a flyer.

“I’m in a band,” he spurted out. “We’ll play for free.”

I thought to myself, yeah sure you are. Who isn’t in a band? I gave him my business card and walked away.  Then, one jobless morning I got tired of blankly staring at my wall and decided to check them out. I am so glad I did.

banned books has existed barely a full year, although you would never know by the tight sound of their first album, Mission Creep.  A fresh album created by self-proclaimed, “immature white kids playing loud music.”

These three white boys, Ben Crouse, Matthew Dermond and Zane Kanevsky from South Jersey, have created a unique sound via synthesizers, drums, guitars, bass, vocals and other various and unidentifiable sounds.  They might be just kids, but their album reflects musical maturity.

Mission Creep, measuring in at a short 8 tracks, leaves you feeling full.  Reminiscent of a variety of sounds from Danny Elfman, to thumping camp songs you sang when you were ten, Mission Creep has it all.  Melodic yet dissonant, the songs on the album are only enhanced by, Kanevsky and Dermond’s chameleon like vocals.  At times they conjure Jack White, other times the little boy from The Shinning (red rum.)

Each and every track has its own appeal.  Some catchier than others like, “Supernatural Mongoloid.” Others are more sinister, as in “Trophy Wife Sings the Devil’s Fanfare.” But all are well executed and injected with unadulterated rock-n-roll. Banned books has created an album that you can sing along to, rock out to, scream to, push to and skip to.  Awesome!