Just about everything about Origin of the Alimonies, the fifth full-length from New York experimental-black-metal-meets-everything project Liturgy, is huge. But who cares? Give yourself a break and just let yourself enjoy something stupid, at least for this year. "Bloody Valentine," driven by Barker's genuinely excellent drumming and a splash of gang vocals, is the perfect powerpop drug for 12-year-olds, cosplayers, Hot Topic shoppers, emo rappers, you, and certainly me, an adult who should know better. MGK knew this, hung out with Travis Barker a ton, some weird tattoo osmosis happened, and now he's made this very well-produced, delightfully bratty record. If you're between the ages of 19 and 37, there is a very good chance that at some point you owned Enema of the State on CD and you damn well liked it. Call Machine Gun Kelly a guilty pleasure if you must, but why have guilt this year when we've barely had pleasure? Unabashedly pivoting to pop punk was the smartest thing that MGK could do, both aesthetically (he has the anarchy symbol tattooed on his solar plexus, after all) and because a good pop punk song is eternally irresistible to the masses.
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