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Shake The Sheets
02/04/2005 8:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Rob O'Connor
The world may bring him down, but Ted Leo doesn’t let that affect his music. Leo’s tight-knit power-punk tackles the world as we know it on his fifth studio album--war and authority questioning strong on the list of complaints--but it never slows the man down or compromises his gift for the perfect hook. Maybe it’s the fact that he grew up in New Jersey where endless gridlock and obnoxious neighbors are a birthright, but Leo thrives on adversity. Tracks such as the opener, “Me And Mia,” “Bleeding Powers” and “The One Who Got Us Out” highlight Leo’s penchant for recreating the mania of late-’70s new wave/punk without airbrushing out the bumps like so many modern-day punks. No, Leo prefers to leave the thorns on his rosebushes and the result is an album that sounds vital and immediate. Shake The Sheets is the accident we’ve all been waiting for to happen.
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