It comes as no surprise to learn that My Gold Mask’s
Gretta Rochelle and Jack Armondo are fans of giallo, a genre of Italian
cinema saturated by garish colors and melodrama galore that was at it
The photos included within the liner notes for 1997’s Too Far to Care, the Old 97’s’ third album, make the band members look like fresh-faced geeks, but the opening guitar riff to “Timebomb,” a jolt of
jagged, countrified Rockabilly, obliterates whatever image the photos
might conjure almost immediately.