It gets to a point where differentiating between punk bands becomes a game of inches. It's all such a matter of feeling and the indescribable act of actually going out and seeing a show. Listening to punk bands and saying, "Hey, this is one to write about," is a fruitless journey and, ultimately, an unrepresentative way of judging a band. That being said, the attack that hit me when I pressed play on the first song on Babysitter's EYE LP was so immediately guttural that I imagined the sonic damage it would do to your internal organs if you exposed them to the ridiculous vibrations emanating from the amplifiers. The rest of the songs flirt with early '90s indie and grunge, while never giving up the caustic edge that first alerted me to Babysitter.
BABYSITTER, w/Happy Noose, Species, Handwritings, 9 p.m., Le Voyeur, 404 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia, $5 for touring band, 360.943.5710
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