The whole CD is awesome. I'm really looking forward to hearing more of Emma on vocals. Keep it up guys. You're on your way.
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Team Genius are a team but are they genius? Eh, that's a bad way to start a review, let's try again.

Team Genius released the Hooray EP on their own, and they are a punk/pop band who create lighthearted, fist pumping anthems, or at least tentative anthems. Upon hearing the opening track, the tentative orgy anthem "Let's All Sleep Together", it immediately reminded me of Pixies. "Sing Song", however, sounds like the kind of song you'd sing at camp or on a school bus when you're going on field trips and the only fun activity is detecting what the bus driver ate for dinner by detecting the odor of the flatulence. It's fun and quirky, geeky and dorky, but it's obvious these guys are having fun. The band originally started out as a trio by brothers Drew & Chad Hermiller and Scott Dyer. Bringing in Erin Griffith and Emma Firth helped the guys stop scratching their balls during sessions, but having ladies in the band seemed to make them bigger loons, and perhaps Griffith and Firth felt right at home. Along with bassist Chris Hudik, the grown are a fun band who don't mind sharing their love of The Buzzcocks, Ween, Sex Pistols, and King Missile (Dog Fly Religion), and Animal Collective. The EP was recorded in the offiicial Hermiller living room, and it actually sounds like a cassette that had been in the mailbox two days too long. The mix is not quite professional, but I like that, it's raw and in turn innocent, because once they get into a proper studio, who knows what kind of mayhem they will brew in there. I can see them lasting longer than their influences, and maybe they can tour on a bus with a bus driver who creates sweet flatulence. If someone can find that driver, school districts across North America will clone them. I do not think that the men and women of Team Genius should be cloned, because they sound like a smart bunch of people who want to discover people who can broaden their fun. Watch out, the tour bus at the end of their tours will be an orgy that cannot be explained by church leaders. Have fun.
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