The
Interrupters have a long list of projects their members have worked on, from being the touring rhythm section of
Sugar Ray to playing with
Tim Armstrong's Tim Timebomb and Friends, but the quartet's true love is punky ska, à la 2 Tone. Their
Armstrong-produced self-titled debut album is an energetic love letter to the ska-punk era and a political letter bomb that rails against the evils of modern life. The three
Bivona brothers lay down the tunes, vocalist
Aimee Interrupter barks out the words in her best
Joan Jett, and
Armstrong keeps things very simple throughout. ~ Tim Sendra