Austin Sound

It was a beautiful day here in Austin, so there was hope that maybe the new five song EP from the Dallas and Austin split quintet Blue Condition would provide a short soundtrack for a quick drive around town. Sadly, the only way Cheap Wine could become some sort of road trip soundtrack for this reviewer was if it literally got stuck in the CD player and I was forced to drive my car, Thelma and Louise style, into the goddamned Grand Canyon. At one point, I even had to roll up my windows at a stop light because I was embarrassed by the mortified looks from the middle aged woman in the car next to me. She probably was wondering how the hell someone could be blaring Blue Condition so loud yet look so disinterested. After all, don’t you usually blast rock because you’re enjoying it? (Or because you’re half deaf thanks to the sound man at Emo’s).