Tracks:
Keep Dancin'
Lovesick
Move Foward
Somewhere in the City
Under Suspicion
Youth Explosion
Searching for Ground
Turnaround
It Won't Die
In My Head
Midnight Strikes

Performer Notes:

• Madcap: Johnny Madcap (vocals, guitar); Ace (guitar); Lee LeBaigue (bass); Jake Margolis Bell (drums).
• Additional personnel: Catch 22 (horns); Rami Jaffee (Hammond B3 organ).
• Recorded at EMG Studios and Castle Oaks Studio, Los Angeles, California.
• Personnel: Madcap (background vocals); Johnny Madcap (vocals, guitar); Catch 22 (horns); Jake Margolis Bell (drums); Joe Rendon (background vocals).
• Audio Mixer: Ted Hutt.
• Recording information: EMG And Castle Oaks studios, Los Angeles, CA.
• Photographer: Sabrina Garner.
• Their label made a strategic error by putting a cover sticker on this album comparing Madcap to the Jam, the Clash, Rancid, and U2, among others. By doing so, they've set up listeners to snort with disgust at the program's one-two opening punch, a lightweight pop-punk song called "Keep Dancin'" (complete with handclaps), which is followed by a lightweight pop-punk love song called "Lovesick." It's not fair to the band, because if you judge those songs on their own merit, they're just fine. Same goes for the rest of the album, which features a time-honored combination of crusty punk rave-ups and hard-skanking Two Tone reggae. None of it is groundbreaking, but all of it is lots of good, snotty fun. Highlights include those first two songs, a nice mosh-pit shoutalong called "Youth Explosion" (which actually kind of sounds like an outtake from the first Police album, with better production), and a relatively laid-back reggae-rock number called "Midnight Strikes." There's a bonus CD-ROM track that includes photos, a brief in-the-studio documentary, and one additional song. Recommended. ~ Rick Anderson

Producer: Ted Hutt

Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Release Date: 1 February, 2004

Label: Relativity Entertainment

Dimensions: 14.1 x 14.7 x 1 centimeters (0.09 kg)