Bicycle Day are a fun, high-energy band that likely put on a great live show. Grade School Weaponry gets to a great start with "Automaton Rock", which boasts a catchy riff and enthusiastic male/female vocals, while "Racecar Number 7" displays the group's Dischord-style yen for atonal guitar lines, rapid drum blasts and dueling vocal melodies. In fact, I'd probably put this up as one of the best rock records I've heard in a long time, if it weren't for the dismal mix. The bass overpowers almost everything, the male vocals are often buried in the mix and the drum-fills are almost offensive in their aggressive push to the front. It's truly unfortunate. "High Five for Sonic Force" is like a punked-out mash-up of the Mamas and the Papas and Superchunk, while "Capgun" follows with a Jawboxy workout. It's refreshing to hear a band be so passionate and musically intelligent without aligning themselves with the 'mo movement, but every song is marred by pounding toms and low-decibel rumblings. As Grade School Weaponry is self-released, it may not be too late for the band to take the raw tracks back into the studio for a better mix. Re-mixed and properly mastered, it could really get them noticed.