Note: Face Value are reviews based solely on the album art.
Out of all of the iconic album covers your shitty indie band could have ripped off (the Damned’s Damned Damned Damned, Elvis Presley’s debut, the Sex Pistols’ only good album, or anything by the fucking Beatles), you chose to pinch Queen II by Queen. I don’t know how it’s possible, but you took out Freddy Mercury and made your EP look even gayer. WITHOUT Freddy! Christ! They say that changing at least 25 percent of something puts you in the clear when it comes to intellectual or creative properties, but changing out the elegant “Queen” logo font with what looks like what I would call “jizz” font isn’t helping you at all. It adds insult to the already severely injured; writing out “Fully Loaded” in semen-dribble-on-black… That’d be like spelling out “Swollen Members” with bull testicles. Got me? You’re still “indie” “artists” (and probably will be for a while), so exercise your “creative control” and stop letting your nephew who’s “good with the computer” design your shit. He’s probably laughing at you anyway. (Independent, www.fullyloadedrock.com) Patrick Michalishyn