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If the members of Kill Lincoln took a “Which ’90s Ska/Pop-Punk Band Are You?” quiz on Buzzfeed, the answer they’d undoubtedly get is “all of them.”
That much is evident from their past two full-lengths, 2012’s You Were There and 2013’s That’s Cool…In a Totally Negative and Destructive Way, which finds the local ska/punk band embracing their inner ’90s kid, playing the kind of energetic, fist-pumping tunes you thought everyone outgrew after high school. And after two records of making that kind of music, it seems as though the members of Kill Lincoln are starting to wonder why they didn’t. “I’m Getting Too Old For This Shit” finds the band facing facts—that maybe they are “too old for this shit”—but it eventually turns into an all-out celebration of inner youth and holding on to the things that you should have outgrown by now.
Look, you can’t stop ’90s nostalgia from happening, so if there’s going to be a million bands copping Nirvana and Pavement, might as well embrace an inevitable ’90s ska revival. Pickituppickitup.
Kill Lincoln kicks off a coast-to-coast tour on Friday at the Rock and Roll Hotel with Boardroom Heroes, Still Alive, and Collapser (Full disclosure: that’s my band).