Misc. Day – Get A Whiff Of This

Lumpy & The Dumpers is the premier lo-fi punk band hailing from Saint Louis, Missouri. The band screams from start to finish on Huff My Sack and there really are no breaks on the album. Each track lasts almost under two-minutes excluding “Numbing Agent,” and “Spider Bite,” which both together don’t even reach a seven-minute mark. Needless to say, Huff My Sack is short winded, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.

While Lumpy & The Dumpers consist of fast garage punk and full blast songs, they still have variety and depth to them. The short time frame that Huff My Sack carries still gives enough time to get in, destroy everything in sight and then leave just as quickly as it started. From the very first time I heard Huff My Sack, I just fell in love with how abrasive it was.

Lumpy & The Dumpers is most definitely not a mainstream band, and that adds to their charm as the lo-fi recording, as well as everything in a noisy environment creates this great forcefulness and aggressiveness to the tracks. It gives them raw emotion that is missed out in a lot of overly-mastered tracks today. Hearing Lumpy just scream in the first track that is also cleverly titled “Huff My Sack,” sets off this in-your-face kind of attitude that I just loved.

Fast, Aggressive, Destructive, but still eloquent, Huff My Sack has this great flow from each song to the next and while the recordings themselves may sound very rough to begin with, the instrumentation and structure behind them are still creative enough to engage the listener. Lumpy & The Dumpers, Huff My Sack is an album that wants to engage the audience and forces them to move around, letting loose any pent up emotions. It brings those emotions to a boiling point and forces the listener to do what punk is all about, moving.

Accommodating the fast pace and outrageously fun to listen to instrumentation comes the lyrics. Now, to some they might come off as ill-toned or insensitive, but I personally think that they match the music perfectly. Going back to the first track “Huff My Sack,” Lumpy proudly exclaims to the world listening that we should have “Been Aborted, (and) get it through our melon heads.” As I said before, the feel of Huff My Sack is overall vile and quite dirty, but it has an immense amount of flow to it and seamlessly combines all the elements of punk music to create this swamp of an album.

There are parts of the album that abandon the disgusting and slime-like feel to create just some all around greatly written and performed punk songs. The track “I’m Gonna Move To New York” comes to mind, and was easily a favorite of mine as it has a great head-banging, body-shaking chorus and an awesome drum breakdown around the halfway mark of the track.

If I could recommend any album to anyone as if late, it would most definitely be Huff My Sack. Lumpy & The Dumpers are in your face, ugly, and best of all, a great band to break some shit to.

Also I would Like to note that this is featured on the back cover for people like me who like to write and express their opinion about other people’s hard work and art…

“A HOT SAGGY NUTSACK SLAP IN THE FACE TO ALL SOCAIL MEDIA AND ANYONE ON THE INTERNET THAT HAS EVER TALKED OR WRITTEN ABOUT THIS BAND. I DIDN’T AUTHORIZE ANY OF THAT – FUCKING JAM IT.”