Warsaw (Poland Bros.) Collected Works

Note: this isn't a review of one particular CD, but instead of ALL of Warsaw's work. The band should be evaluated as a whole, perhaps not even by individual albums, but as the entire body of work that is Warsaw.

Fortunately my introduction to this band was through probably their best album to date, 'Hors G'lore'. The play on words is especially effective because of the fact that the album was a great hors d'oeuvre for the meal of rock, ska, reggae, hiphop, country, and punk that Warsaw Poland Brothers set their table with.

What I had heard about the guys who make up warsaw--the all-night skateboarding, the copious amounts of crank and Jagermeister (by whom they are sponsored)-sounded like a recipe for shitty music and an early death. While these guys might indeed die young, their music is far from shitty. It seems that whatever aspect of JA music they become interested in completely consumes their creative abilities. When they said "Let's make a ska album" and Battle Ska Galactica came out, you better believe it was some of the most right-on-target ska (in all its forms) coming out of the nineties. Same goes for the Dub Confrontation album (with stucky). Straight up reggae dub, from the heart and rippin' through your central nervous system. The release previous to Dub Confrontation, 'Pimpin' on Crutches' is also great for what it is. Another reviewer called it a "departure". To me this just says he didn't listen to Warsaw's other music. Every album is a departure- but from the average, not from their own sound. P.O.C. could by typified as rock/rap/latin/punk /hip-hop/country, and that would only hit most of the marks.

In short, if you haven't heard Warsaw, you're missing out. They've asked me to put all of their music online, and you can find it on KaZaA, where I'm Urmahm666.