“East to West” is the second album from Los Angeles band Madcap. What we have here is 12 tracks of good old street punk with a touch of hardcore reminiscent of the early Dropkicks, SLF and the Bouncing Souls. Not a bad track on it, but then again no “Alternative Ulster” or “Boys on the Dock” either. Funny, sometimes I wonder if a good/decent band like Madcap were based in say Cleveland or Glasgow or just one of these cities without the benefit of having a label like Sideonedummy based there would they ever have been signed?

October 2002