It's pretty easy to imagine what Winter Dance Party sounds like simply by looking at the song titles the Spaceshits choose: between "Backseat Boogie," "At the Drive-In," "Bacon Grease," and "S&M Girl," you can almost hear the frantic, overdriven punk, the rockabilly and beat-rock touches, and the casually inane lyrics. What's surprising is that the Spaceshits do a somewhat impressive job with such an overdone genre, kicking American "beat-punk" bands like
the Hi-Fives to the curb -- this is terrifically unbrilliant material, but it delivers the visceral knocks it's meant to deliver. ~ Nitsuh Abebe