Effervescent bursts of Ramones-inspired punk rarely breaching the two-minute mark.
Maybe he changed his number. Maybe his pager’s not working or his Facebook account’s been hacked. Whatever the explanation, lithe southern gent Dan Sartain certainly didn’t get the memo to let him know that once you’re done with your youthful thrashings and ‘progress’ beyond punk, it’s generally not the done thing to revisit the misspent days of one’s callow, carefree youth.
Too Tough to Live, see, has no Hank, no Gram, no Cramps and certainly no mariachi about it, the man’s easy-going country-cum-blues-cum-rockabilly-cum-whatever swagger traded in wholesale for 13 effervescent bursts of Ramones-inspired punk that only once dare to breach the two-minute mark.
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Bron: BBC Music