Planet Smashers

FLASHBACK!: The year was 1994 and the world was a very different place….A happy-go-lucky Bill Clinton presided over the free world; Ace of Base topped the music charts with their insipid reggae-inspired hit The Sign; cats had yet to take over the internet, men and women wore acidwashed overalls slung from one shoulder â la Joey from Friends; and a young band of ragtag miscreants released their first full-length to an unsuspecting public. In case you haven't been paying attention, that band was (and still is) The Planet Smashers.

Fast forward two decades, seven albums, one million records sold worldwide, six gazillion beers consumed, countless tours and one extremely blurry never-ending party to this futuristic and confusing present day. Who will save us from this current clusterfuck filled with beliebers, honey-booboos and bathroom selfies? Who will stand boldly in the face of the autotuned, deep-vee wearing douche chills crapping in the earholes of the world? Who will dare to play their own instruments while blasting out ska hooks so catchy you wish you could scoop them up and eat them like ice-cream?....You're goddamned right it's The Planet Smashers.

Mixed Messages is the 8th and arguably best long-player from our stalwart musical heroes. Combining their trademark concoction of two-tone ska, new wave, punkrock and pop sensibilities, The Smashers showcase their classic knack for writing immediately lovable tunes straight from the gut, all the while keeping their collective tongues planted firmly in their respective cheeks. These thirteen prolific tracks run the thematic gamut of party-punk anthems, dancefloor bangers, lovesongy crooners, geeky highsteppers to pissed-off melodic fistpumpers and back again, leaving the listener pleasantly spent and basking in an eargasmic afterglow. Mixed Messages is definitely a definitive, must-have album for new and old fans alike….or maybe it's not, but it probably is…I think…or whatever. (see what I did there?)

GLORIOUS GUSHINGS FROM THE PRESS PUNDITS:

"The Smashers are in tip-top form, serving up sizzling platters of third-wave ska with a little punk thrown in for rebellion's sake" – Alternative Press

"There's a certain comfort that comes with putting on a new Planet Smashers record for
the first time all those upstrokes, that brass, the never-ending party." – Exclaim

"…another enjoyable album from the veteran skankers from the great white north" – Verbicide

"…this new Planet Smashers opus remains a damn good third wave ska product and an ideal summer soundtrack." – The Hour

"It's good to have The Planet Smashers continuing to fly the ska flag proudly and I, for one, will stand with them." - Big Wheel Magazine