CKY
An Answer Can Be Found
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Pennsylvania rockers who've been heard on Jackass and various skate videos, CKY are all about riff-heavy guitars, pummeling percussion, and breathy, unthreatening vocals. Their second LP, An Answer Can Be Found, is the perfect soundtrack for a junior high dance or a long day at the half pipe.
Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about CKY is the ardor of their fans, the CKY Alliance, whose bragging rights include having bombarded this magazine with pissed-off e-mails after we gave the band's previous album a two-star review. Here we go again. The presence of Bam Margera's brother Jess on drums may keep CKY aligned with the skate-punk scene, but An Answer Can Be Found
Read More is mind-numbing stoner metal, with ginormous power chords, repetitive vocals and overwrought lyrics ("Invaded by a swarm of confliction"? Ex-squeeze me?). "Don't Hold Your Breath," "Suddenly Tragic" and "The Way You Lived" all renounce suicide, which may be a case of CKY living down their name, which is short for Camp Kill Yourself. "Why put the gun to your head if you're already dead?" singer Deron Miller asks on "Suddenly Tragic." One good reason: to drown out the sound of An Answer Can Be Found.
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