XX Teens:
Welcome To Goon Island

By: Jake Krolick XX Teens' Welcome To Goon Island (Mute) sits far from the mainland floating in some the raunchiest, strangest musical waters ever sailed. Their dance-punk sounds swirl from wild stinging guitars, Ross Orton's erratic drumming, a thudding bassline push and Rich Cash's jumbled, over-medicated, rock & roll rants. And that's just the first track. One moment, Cash sounds like Morphine's dear departed Mark Sandman and the next he's strung up in a moment between The Cramps' Lu...

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