‘Woe is me’ is an expression that pops up in my head every now and then when I’m listening to yet another shitty album, wondering why the hell I ever began a zine. Not so during Wet Paint’s second album, which is actually worth listening to.

Former Absentee guitarist Babak Ganjei started this band and on their sophomoric album they sound a helluva lot like Pavement/Sebadoh/ Sonic Youth. They won’t be winning any prizes for most innovative band that way, but it does lead to some pretty decent slacker tunes that will please all the nineties nostalgics out there!