Album Review
Title:  Peep Show
Artist:  Merry
Release date:  July 19, 2006
www.merrymate.jp

     If you like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, you're gonna want to give Merry a listen.  Perhaps one of the first visual bands to incorporate such heavy ska and rockabilly into their music, they still manage to sound like neither and both while maintaining a certain visual kei appeal.
     Sitting down to a meal of Merry is like having the same lunch every day.  You really crave and enjoy it for a while, but eventually you want something different.  Peep Show is like the leftovers of your favorite dish.  You eat it because it's your favorite and it brings back some nice memories.  It doesn't help that they have several "new" versions of old songs on the album that don't really sound all that new. 
     If there is one strong point to Merry, it's that you'll always recognize their particular sound, but you may not remember the particular song.