Considering their track record thus far, it's surprising that what Wasted Years feels like it needs most is some careful editing. Too often, OFF! do something exciting before plopping a sluggish song into the mix, which might come off as a petty grievance if OFF!'s most powerful songs didn't possess the duality of sounding vicious and effortlessly pared back.
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Lost momentum is a fairly common occurance on Wasted Years. "Hypnotized", their longest track to date clocking in at 2:15, feels like a slog coming after "Over Our Heads", which finds Morris screaming, "There's no free lunch for a jackass". By the time they kick into overdrive again, any initial excitement the track conjured feels squandered, and the song's momentum is lost. The elements at play are largely familiar ones-the overall sound hasn't changed much and Morris is still screaming stuff like "You need to be exorcised"-so the question stands: when's the exact moment when OFF!'s discography dips from "exciting" to merely "good"? I'll argue that it's the 47-second mark of Wasted Years' "Red White and Black", which begins with screeching feedback and a breakneck, biting attack before breaking into a slow chug. Their latest album, Wasted Years, adds another 16 tracks to the band's catalog at 23 minutes, it's their longest album, and even though this is a band that does "fast" really well, the added eight minutes threaten to completely bog down this new one. OFF! was a good album, even if the songs weren't quite as strong as the ones that made their debut such a revelation. Two years later, OFF! followed those 16 songs with 16 more on their self-titled LP.
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