Super Chinchilla Rescue Mission & The Tim Version Go Halves On A Bastard ADD Records jessika@UnitePR.com In between drowsy emo and explorative post-punk, you need to have at least some spazzed-out guitar with pounding drums and imperfect lyric-yelling. These are the punk bands in your town. It's nothing amazing. Two groups that do not expecially stand out from the crowd are similar enough to come together and create a split that flows like one band from start to finish. Their styles are almost identical in all aspects at first glance. Upon reading the lyrics along with the song, both write of their towns with distaste, but Super Chinchilla Rescue Mission's vocals are slower and lower, with a different kind of growl. The Tim Version twists in a little bit more humor, as well as melody. Both bands give us straight-ahead punk rhythm guitar with interspersed mixings of lead parts over the plain barre chords, which adds substantial quality to the disc. We've heard this approach before, but it is likeable and it works. These are not punk-pop bands, and the instruments sound like they are straight from the garage or show. The music is what it is, and the lyrics tell it how it is. Super Chinchilla Rescue Mission's "60 Hour Greyhound" stresses the ordinary, speaking of poorly-kept hotel rooms and boring bus scenery. The Tim Version's "Lloyd" presents apathy as an alternative to nothing: "So pour me a Stoney's fetch me another beer. Pour me a Stoney's I guess that's why I'm here. There's absolutely nothing going wrong. There's absolutely nothing going on." Sounds like a good reason to start a band.