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OC WEEKLY

"Good Bad, But Not Evil"
Get on, Rock, Get Off with the Rotten Apples

The band is like a long-distance love affair. The good songs come together like true love. And the side projects are when your steady goes out; nails the bartender at the Gulp ‘n’ Grope; and winds up stumbling sticky, drunk and ultimately unsatisfied into your cold, lonely bed.

Their debut full-length, Real Tuff: Durable Plastic, is built Poltergeist-style over an ancient ex-significant-other burial ground, with once-mushy-now-rigor-mortised relationships bursting through the floorboards into hideous (and new wave-y) life. Without these tales of doomed romance, we’d be left with half an album; with sex and single-woman-hood constantly bearing down on Colantuono’s brain, Real Tuff stretches into something determined, honest and passionate.