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You know what’s a bummer? If I was eighteen years old and heard Myelin Sheaths for the first time, I’d probably drop a turd in my pants at how scuffy the band’s garage stuff sounds. I’m not, though. And I’m jaded. And I don’t really believe in anything. So getting an earful of the Sheaths’ Get On Your Nerves doesn’t move me emotionally one bit.

That’s not to say there aren’t good performances on here, but thanks to Southpaw, and earlier HoZac the Sheaths are regaling unwitting listeners with music that’s been made and remade for something like fifty years.

What’s even more disappointing is after that first track – “Gloves / Mutations” – it’s all downhill. The opener, though, takes the thrasiest rock drums possible, marries it to a pretty simple, but steady bassline allowing for the main guitar figure to grind its way through the fuzz pedal and into your ear holes. It’s really actually quite a magical two minute composition and should make listeners eager to hear more. The ‘more,’ though, is just wrote, revved up garage stuff, the same as anything coming out of the Bay, which is beyond boring and repetitive at this point.