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Deth Becomes Shane: Shanes Addiction

There's probably a good reason why 'death' is misspelled on the cover of this album; and why there's a cow smoking a cigarette; possibly even why there's exposed male genitalia on the back cover. These things, like a lot of this album, don't make a whole lot of sense. And that's likely a good thing - music like this probably shouldn't be sensible, or smart, or make sense most of the time. These guys have set out to make a ska/rock album that's just fun, nothing more, and at this, they have surely succeeded. Recorded over one day at a home recording studio 'The Dank' in Auckland, 'Shanes Addiction' is a little juvenile at times (okay, a lot juvenile, a lot of the time), but that's all part of the drunken fun. The band make no effort to hide it and neither does the production. Ever wondered if there was a ska song about spiking your own drink, or tea-bagging (if you don't know, don't ask)? Deth Becomes Shane have, and beyond the deliberately offensive, have made quite a fun album of it.

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