Review: Contemporary D.C. punk gets another run for its money with this seven-year anniversary of No Man's 'Glitter And Spit' EP. Emerging from the city's punk scene with the collective voracity of a starved vat of piranhas, the four-piece band came together amid the fallout of prior project Majority Rule, albeit with a similar set of musical-political aims. The EP evidences No Man's sound as huge and clunking, thanks to the nearly slowcore-esque drums and guitars of Pat Broderick and Kevin Lamiell (in its slower moments, at least), yet coming fronted by a toothy, harpish snarl by vocalist Matt Michel, backed up by guest vocalist Maha Shami on one track. The faster moments are monumentally cathartic and powerful; this is by far one of the most intense punk records we've heard all year so far, carrying enough home-headbang potential to evince many a rageful family moshpit from the sound alone, let alone the commentary over the Israeli-Palestine conflict it also bears.
Review: Opting to go out on their own terms, purposefully petulant, endlessly irreverent punk mainstays, NOFX, are set to graciously bow out of the race upon completing next year's tour cycle for their final swan song, the aptly - if rather literally - titled Double Album. Following on from 2021's excellent, 'Single Album', the project marks the return of Bill Stevenson of Descendents and Blasting Room's Jason Livermore on production duties, aiding Fat Mike and co to craft the most dynamic, seasoned, and entertaining material of their 21st century output. Sporting the endlessly playful and brilliantly titled lead single, 'Darby Crashing Your Party', as well as the originally penned for Blink-182 cut, 'Punk Rock Cliche', few artists, let alone those in the punkosphere, manage to stroll to the finish line on their own terms, merit and energy intact, but that's precisely what NOFX have accomplished. With a stacked 2023 promised for the band's final trot around the sun, there couldn't be a more bittersweet time to be a devotee of self-aware, cynical anthems.
Review: The fourth full-length LP by Canadian punk rockers Nomeansno comes as their most popular album to date, a whirlwind of post-hardcore, heavy metal and jazzcore influences that harks back not only to nineties interpretations of post-punk, but also fresh renditions and fusions of the sound in the 21st Century. Pondering catacylsmic themes and cryptic modern aporias, this is a veritable walloping in sound from the Vancouver troupe.
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