TEENBEAT !

With their “differences” settled, the two Zip Code Rapists made a back-together-again-for-the-first-time comeback with the disarmingly competent 94124 EP, taking the opportunity to announce a new morality in the bozo-funky “Zip Code Gentlemen.” Of course, it’s a joke, and the skimpy record (six songs, a one-minute live fragment plus a self-described “filler” remix) soon finds the two up to their old tricks, faking their way through a dubious Nashville two-step (“I Need Him”), a muck-slinging product endorsement (“Ranch Style Beans”), sick-puppy pop (“Happy Like Larry”) and fucked-up live covers (“The Look of Love,” the Doors’ “Riders on the Storm”). With that, plus the significant inclusion of a perverted Southwestern ballad (“Henderson”), the Zip Code Rapists finally reach their ultimate destination — they’re a Ween tribute band, after all. (Ira Robbins, Trouser Press)