I may not be about that folk punk life, but I can certainly enjoy the music, can’t I?

Days N’ Daze is a Houston, TX band–because they’re too punk for Austin–and they’ve been putting out records since the late 00s–so Rogue Taxidermy isn’t their first rodeo, and it doesn’t sound it either. The band’s got some pretty obvious influences: Gogol Bordello, Johnny Hobo, early Against Me!, Choking Victim, Andrew Jackson Jihad, and maybe some Defiance, Ohio. However, the playing here is fantastically tight, and they know their way around a song, too. These guys have a rough outer shell, but their righteous lyrics, solid structures, and sticky melodies leave a sweet aftertaste.