Description

Loud, rude and full of the silliest rhymes this side of a Sir Mix-A-Lot tape, Guttermouth’s latest, Gusto is 14 ridiculously charming songs about love, truth, and the healing powers of rockin’ out. The band rarely takes itself very seriously, leaving the door wide open for its stylized lunacy to leap through and bring a smile to the face of even the most staid listener.
Guttermouth’s brand of energetic punk rock puts a grand spin on the reemergence of the genre. Though much of Gusto‘s lyrics are caustic and funny, they are very much grounded in reality—even if it is the reality of a bunch of skirt-chasing, beer-swilling lads from Orange County—and remove the band from the current crop of punksters trying far too hard to say something meaningful in their down-and-out-cynical-bastard songs (Good Charlotte’s “Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous” anyone?). Singer, Mark Adkins explains: “We were just one of the many little bands who sang songs from the heart and did it because we weren’t into the status quo bullshit that was going on musically. We chose to sing about real stuff.”