Oh, great skate punk rock! Oh, how apparently vacuous you are, but oh, how catchy. AM Taxi and their We Don’t Stand a Chance are self-deprecating, depressing, angry, low-esteem, dark, and all of that, but boy, the music drives a beat. It’s that continual need for a cry against the machine of the world, the machine that tries to squash people under its thumb. AM Taxi proves that once again music can be a great defense mechanism, a way to rail against the injustices of life, or at least a way to speak things that creep into your mind. I don’t know that it’s always healthy, but I certainly understand what it means to feel like you’re “The Mistake.” Plus, what differentiates AM Taxi from other angry music is the melodic breaks and vocal lines. This isn’t MxPx; this is Hawk Nelson and Stellar Kart—skate punk with melodic hooks. So I suppose you can sing along and just not go too dark with it. Take it as a rallying cry. Sing out the pain. Just don’t go completely rogue on me.

AM Taxi
Virgin Records