Artist: I Hate Kate
   Title: Embrace The Curse
   Label: DR2 Records

The old adage of ‘You cant have too many coals in the fire” comes to mind as I listen to I Hate Kate's debut release 'Embrace The Curse'.

When Justin Maureillo first put the band together as a side project to Zebrahead little did he know that this band would become his primary concern, since his subsequent departure from Zebrahead.

The band have put together an album that is very much in vogue at this moment in time the snappy pop punk sound has that summer sun feeling.  A really good album to blow away those spring blues and set you in the mood for summer parties and living it up with your friends in those long hot summers days.

The album is as feel good as it gets with some quite different sounds pulsating throughout starting with the opener ‘Bed Of Black Roses’, although the track starts off rather solemnly the pop punk feel soon picks things up, as the slung down guitars and up beat drums lay waste to the sombre start, then it's all guns blazing from here on in.

The tempo is kept going with track 2 ‘It’s Always Better’, another real cracker of a track that is the sort of thing Green Day used to do.

The American pop punk genre has always produced some really great bands and I think I Hate Kate will slip in with the likes of Green Day and Blink 182 and their like.  This is not a complicated album, it's simply good clean fun with a capital F and with the likes of ‘Then You Kiss’, ‘I’m I Love With A Sociopath’ and 'Outta My Head’, this album is definitely fitting with the youth of today, the pre-teen crowd and that is were the money is today, so all you mums and dads better dig deep when this album gets released later this month and if they tour, they will be sell-out shows, so you better have a deep purse or wallet because I Hate Kate are coming you way.

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