If you remember the recent and cool Dead At 24 retrospective album that Ride The Snake put out, Anita Fix & Bam Bam is the band that followed, who I believe are still performing in some capacity, or maybe not. I hope they are, because this single is like a more distilled, punky, not-as-’90s version of Dead At 24, which means it’s pretty great. “Run For Joy” could be a KBD rocker if it didn’t get so arty… reminds me of The Girls’ “Jeffrey I Hear You” or something by Raymilland, like a new-wave group that was too punk for the pop crowd but too smart for the punk crowd. “20 Second Bugs” sounds like the live recording that it is, albeit a good one, played with a nervous energy to a crowd who seemed riled up about something other than Anita Fix. Kinda rubs me like a Moss Icon song, if Moss Icon read books that made them wiseguys instead of hippies. I don’t know, I can see this one getting lost in the shuffle (Anita Fix is probably the least self-promoting drag queen I’ve ever known), but those who stumble upon it (or discover it in the back of a singles bin ten years from now) will probably wonder the same thing: “How come I never hear anyone talk about this band?”
