FLESHIES - SCRAPE THE WALLS pubished September 6, 2006, The Owl Mag

There is a shortage of great band names left available for emerging bands. It's fact. You can rack your brain for weeks trying to come up with something cool and as soon as you’ve decided, you figure out it’s taken. So I don't know about you, but when I hear about a band called Fleshies, I really want to like them. Cool name, cool band, right? However, that is pretty much where the cool stops.

Despite an exciting vocal cameo care of Jello Biafra on one track, Scrape The Walls is a cold fish. This display of garage punk is one step below stale. It is almost impossible to detect what it is that is missing from this act. It just screams day jobs and minivans, like not all of the possible energy is plunged into the project. On the other hand, this is not a band that will fuck up your day and not even make you ask for the 45 minutes it took you to listen to this album back. Points for the name, though!