Two Selected Works by I Farm (Review)

You can see the two influences throughout this album, be it the insane guitars or almost-robotic-because-it’s-so-fast drums.
Two Selected Works - I Farm

There’s nothing I love more than just listening to blistering guitars in a song. With bands like The Locust turning songs under a minute to an artform now, many bands would seem to try to copy this formula. Not the case at all with I Farm’s release Two Selected Works, showcasing tracks from 2000 (Sincerely, Robots) and 1998 (Learning Russian With I Farm) respectively.

As of late, Brooklyn has been swarming with DIY punk bands, begging to gain exceptance. I Farm has a few people from here and a few people from a city with a hardcore background, Washington D.C. You can see the two influences throughout this album, be it the insane guitars or almost-robotic-because-it’s-so-fast drums. You wonder how this music can be. And realizing these are real, live guys making music that they want, you go nuts too.

With 20 tracks equaling 30 minutes, you know you’ve got a one-two punch of an album on your hands. I think to myself, “Why can’t punk be like this?” and then I realize that people would rather cop out and make whiny albums that won’t mean shit in about a year’s time and be in dollar bargain bins a month after they are popular.

With varying members on both sets of songs, it doesn’t really matter because the idea of rocking out is always evident. You can tell they’ve listened to themselves and changed the formula ever so slightly since the split that Learning Russian With I Farm’s 3 songs are from. Just doesn’t get much more furious than this. And it’s catchy too. Can these guys do no wrong?

Biggest recommendation. 9.0 out of 10. Kick ass tunes that don’t ask for sexual favors afterwards. Go to Big Action Records’ website at www.bigactionrecords.com or to I Farm’s official site at www.ifarmrock.com to check up on the guys who make I Farm rock.

Written by James McCormick.

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