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In Pursuit Of Something Interesting: Dingus' "Who Cares?"

Full disclosure: I have had this record for over a year. I saw it in the back of a crate full of local releases while shopping for Record Store Day and was intrigued by the name Dingus and the record's cover. The photo of three dudes sitting in inner-tubes and the name Who Cares? called to me. So I bought it, listened to it like one-and-a-half times and put it on the shelf with my countless other records. Since this column is all about crate digging and finding new tunes, I thought it would fit in perfectly. Grabbing it off the shelf and dusting it off, I could not for the life of me remember what  Who Cares? sounded like. I knew it was a pop punk album but that was it. As the Dingus launches into "Irob," the bands technical abilities are made abundantly clear. The band's guitarist throws in some major riffage that adds melody you likely would not find on a Midwestern pop-punk song. The very next track features an intro that almost sounds like a chamber ensembl...