Ol' Tony Bones and crew ain't making a reviewers job easy with Viva Le Vox's latest, “Dirt For Sale.” The boys should be applauded for establishing a Frankenstein sound, a conglomeration of ragtime, jazz and punk. This is what makes reviewing it so difficult, as nailing down a reference point to form a basis of comparison in order to give the reader a sense of the sound without using the sense of hearing. Certainly lines of delineation can be found, but they become skewed and cloaked behind some other element in the songs that the connect because. The easiest comparison to make would...
