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''Disconnection Notice'' is the fifth official album by Goldfinger. It was released on February 15, 2005. - Wikipedia

They've been compared to everyone from No Doubt to the Ramones, but with Disconnection Notice Goldfinger make their own agenda clear. They plow through 12 tunes in a little over thirty minutes, mixing and matching genres with an exhilarating disregard for anything but the music. "Wasted," a humorous tale of self-destruction, starts with a tinkling mandolin-it almost sounds like a country tune before the band comes stomping in. "Uncomfortable" combines ska, lover's rock and a honking horn section with a rhythm straight out of '60s Memphis soul, "Iron Fist" hints at Born to Run-era Springsteen with its big spaghetti-western guitar and dyspeptic look at the state of "homeland security," while "FBI" brings the Clash to mind with its aggressive ska rhythm and a sampled female voice that delivers a blistering indictment of meat-eating and corporate greed. "Damaged" uses fiddles and a vocal sampled from an Indian movie to give us a grim portrait of a single guy's life, complete with mountains of dirty laundry on the living room floor, while the love song "Faith" has the kind of delirious pop melody a more rocking Burt Bacharach might write. The band breathes fire throughout, and frontman/songwriter John Feldman knows how to attack a lyric so it rings with truth, whether singing sincerely about changing the world on "Walk Away" or sounding slightly deranged when he says "I wanna marry my stalker."