"The album is great by the by." -Brandon Mylenek
"I still can't get over the Mlac album." -Ryan Taber
"So fucking good Scott...Love love the album (he's a tweaker)...Dude we get to dissect a froooggg..." -Jayson Homyak
"Another great Mlac album." -Chops
"Well done sir. Beautifully executed. Mlac is sooo fucking awesome. We've been loving that shit." -Jon Faloon
"I loved it. It's a really beautiful album, much more musically taut and refined than I expected. The vocals, the guitar work, the concept, everything worked. I want to listen to this album while driving in the summer with the windows down. My favorite tracks are Suds, Brando Cry (the last part especially), Whisper From the Stars (holy shit so good), and No Parents (is that DMX? What?). But seriously, it's a great album front to back, you should be proud of it." -Peter Barlow, Livonia Underground
"No comment." -Jason Edgil and Scott Crossman (sang in unison hillbilly harmony)
Anti-Raunchwagon Records would explode in teenage-wet-dream ecstasy if it were any prouder to announce the release of the second studio album from Royal Oak, MI band "Mlac". The band name is pronounced like 'block' with an 'm' instead of a 'b' (or 'mlock'). Following the release of "Raking The Neighbor's Lawn", No Parents High School goes in a slightly different direction. Maintaining the oddball tuning on their guitars of FACFCF, they cranked out eight new tracks that clock in at an unremarkable 24 minutes and 15 seconds. These songs, though short, cut off all excess fat of modern music, hardly ever repeating choruses or remaining in one place for too long. The album's overall sound is characterized by a return to their youthful bliss, flying around the hallways of the only high school in Neverland like a four-person embodiment of Peter Pan on an eternal, consistent dosage of LSD.
The album begins with "Charles Charles Charlie" an uplifting canon of all soundwaves in the history of mankind. The band first tells you what you'll need for "First we get the weed, then we get the money, then we get the pussy, then we ride on a horsey". The second track "Suds" is all too brief but just long enough to convey the bliss of one of those crushes where everyone but the object of desire knows you have a crush on them. The third track "Brando Cry" is a notable one, which brings the listener from an abandoned carnival in its offseason to the most sinister death at the hands of a priest. Up next are two instrumentals, "Bronto" and "Manitee International" which bring the journey through Dimension X, with a brief stop in "wah heaven", and on to the stage of spirituality before reincarnation. We end up juxtaposed in a relationship between a sweet dead girl's spirit and her high school lover in "Whisper from The Stars" as guitarist Scott Crossman sings "I asked you to be my pretty girlfriend, and then you died." Before you realize you're in senior year and you will never be able to get back into Neverland again, the band celebrates with its anthem "No Parents", describing the doctor's note from a girl that excused the boy from school to get in her in his country bedroom. The album ends with "DVD Menu", a background track that would play during the main menu on the DVD for the fictionalized movie "No Parents High School". For those true fans who buy the CD, the album ends with the B-Side "I Will Always Love You" in which bassist Jason Edgil sings "I will always love you" over and over and over. What a triumph in the history of sound and therefore music in general. The only 'ten I see'.
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