Swagger

Performer: Flogging Molly
Engineer: Steve Albini
Producer: Flogging Molly
Distributor: Alternative Dis. Alliance

Notes: Flogging Molly: Dave King (vocals, acoustic guitar); Dennis Casey (guitar); Robert Schmidt (banjo, mandolin); Bridget Regan (fiddle, tin whistle); Matt Hensley (accordion); George Schwindt (drums). Additional personnel: John Donovan (guitar); Gary Schwidt (trumpet). Recorded at Audio Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois. Audio Mixer: Steve Albini. Recording information: Electrical Audio Recording Stud. Nothing like a traditional Irish band from California. All cynicism aside, Flogging Molly's hybrid of street punk and pub-rock is a ruckus of punch-drunk energy. Combining the folk of the Pogues with an Oi! blast by way of the Dropkick Murphys, their debut full-length Swagger provides a brew of rowdy party music that's perfect for any barroom brawl. ~ Mike DaRonco

Alternative Press (10/00, pp.91-2) - 3 out of 5 - "...Different, upbeat and pure fun..." CMJ (5/00, p.59) - "...A pleasant enough punk diversion....Comparisons to those standard-bearers of Irish folk-punk, The Pogues, are inevitable..."

Flogging Molly provide something of a West Coast answer to Boston's the Dropkick Murphys (minus the street-tough posturing). Since forming in the late 1990s, Flogging Molly have been blending punk tempos and attitude with traditional Celtic instrumentation. With their rousing choruses and bittersweet tales of drunken nights, heartache, and the perseverance of the common man, another group of Emerald Isle revelers the Mollys readily evoke is the grandaddies of Celtic punk themselves, the Pogues.

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