Album Review: Club Nites by Dumb

Vancouver-based punk band Dumb established there was a large amount of irony in their name when they released their first album for Mint Records, Seeing Green, in 2018, and that hasn't changed a bit on the follow-up, 2019's Club Nites. Clever, energetic, overstimulated, and amiably intense, Club Nites suggests Dumb are evolving into the 21st century version of the Embarrassment, a band who bent punk orthodoxy to their own wiry purposes (and remain Wichita, Kansas' greatest contribution to American music). Like the Embarrassment, Dumb's take on the world around them is cynical but blessed with a very real wit, and they never make the mistake of believing they're too much cooler than the people who puzzle them.

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Here's a band that pump out material like the world is about to end (which it is). Vancouver's snarky indie rockers Dumb are already on their fourth album, having averaged a new one every ten months. They keep churning out short, wry tunes with a no-frills sound that channels post-punks like Minutemen and Parquet Courts (or, to cast a wider net, Pavement meets Fugazi). This year's Club Nites is more approachable than last year's Seeing Green, but that doesn't make it any less loose and unfettered.   The guitars are grimy and jangly. The ….

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