Fierce sneers glaring with teeth-baring defiance, smiling, dark alley vipers Heavy Looks roll up their sleeves and put their foot down. Weighing in with side-eye piledrivers and streetwise desires, the band’s latest release unleashes armored hearts ripe in righteous soundbites and chip-on-the-shoulder poetry. Tough-minded drive demanding romance in cruise-control hopes and gate-crashing thrash, “Apathy,” grabs confrontational confessions by the collar wrestling sketchy tempests with soda-shop doo-wop inside double-fisted kiss-offs, deadpan emo anthems dipped in Phil Spector gloom and hefty basement-rock chops churning discerning earworms into licorice-twisted bubblegum. Packed in bewitching grit, bent venting and greaser freak-outs, the foursome swerve in go-go booted bop cast in metallic hooks and mechanical abandon, cathartic go-carts on a rock ‘n roll roller-coaster steering between gleeful delirium and numbed noir. - John Noid, Maximum Ink