Class Three Overbite

Go right now, listen to "No Good Rotten". Can't get enough of this one and there's more where that came from. Although, this album is not all such Jellyfish inspired ditties, for fans of Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. there is a lot of Imperial Drag's 70's hard pop fetishisms here to add into the mix. Yup, there's some late 70s Queen that pops in and out "Life Is A Piece Of Cake" is a good example but it's all over the place, which is a very good thing!) . Class Three Overbite is a duo of Mike Elgert and Bradley Jendza. Elgert, whose "Days Gone By" is a must purchase(just a first-class indie power pop release all the way), has found a cool foil in Jendza as they bounce their many talents off each other and wind around many different place stylistically but it's all about 'the pop', beginning to end. The arrangements are accomplished and ambitious and all the songs are sweetly filled with layers of vocals and affects, this is a varied, textured album that makes their ambition and skill abundantly clear. Their songwriting approach reaches high but provide killer pay off in the hooks and melody departments--mandatory expectations here at Not Lame. The highest of high Extremely Highly Recommended here! - notlame.com

Bradley Jendza and Mike Elgert (whose Days Gone By release made our "Best of 2006" list) absolutely astound here with Rendezvous, an album jam-packed with pop/rock goodness. Rendezvous is a blast to listen to as it’s loaded with great songs of varied styles, all wonderfully executed and expertly performed and arranged. Check out the disco-flavored title track, the Queen meets Jellyfish-like sweetness of "No Good Rotten" and the riff-heavy 70's guitar rock of "Milkshake". Prepare to be knocked out by this one! Featured Tracks: "Milkshake", "Rendezvous", "No Good Rotten"
- whitsbrain.com

If you're old enough, just close your eyes and picture the scene in your head: you're sitting on the floor of a wood-paneled basement with wall-to-wall carpet and you've wearing a pair of headphones listening to the latest rock LP you bought from the local record store for $4.99. The year is 1976. Now open them. You're sitting in front of a computer listening to mp3s and the year is 2007. Either way, it works for Class Three Overbite's Rendezvous, a gem of a disc that will appeal to rockers young and old. Class Three Overbite is the brainchild of Mike Elgert and Bradley Jendza. Elgert should be familiar to power pop fans and readers of this site; his Days Gone By placed a cool #59 on last year's Absolute Powerpop Top 100. But whereas Days Gone By was more straightforward Jellyfish/Superdrag-inspired power pop, Rendezvous is more in debt to 70s glam and "corporate rock". The opener "Milkshake" sounds like one of Tommy Shaw's Styx tracks; The title track, with almost a danceable disco beat, reminds me of none other than Kiss's "I Was Made For Loving You", their stab at disco-rock. "No Good Rotten" is my favorite track on the album, with a heavy Queen influence - but more the Queen of Brian May than Freddie Mercury, and "Life Is a Piece of Cake" is cut from the same cloth. And "What's So Funny" is probably the album's quintessential track, trading folky verses with a glam-rocking chorus.
- absolutepowerpop.com