Some things fail to either dazzle or disappoint you. Take soap, for instance. Can’t get excited about soap, but quite happy that it’s around – especially when you’re due out on a date and you’ve got more cock cheese than you could wave a cheese-grater at. Or bread. Hardly the food of choice but get home from the pub after a few pints with your mates and it acquires a heavenly status. The same can be true of perky, popped-up punk bands like A – it’s difficult to really hate them but it’s equally hard to justify them all the same. Occasionally, however, songs like ‘Rush Song’ and ‘Better Off With Him’ turn up at the right time and they seem practically useful, perhaps even enjoyable in a throw your hands up in the air, back to the wall, reluctant kind of way.
Taken from a Seattle & Washington state law that forbids 15-18 year olds from attending gigs the title of the album pretty much encapsulates the spirit of the album: we’re young, we’re foolish and we’ve inherited a stash of Police, Black Sabbath and AC/DC records – and what’s more, we don’t quite know how to control them.
Big, anthemic and just as likely as soap to bring you round in the morning, the album is produced by Pantera, Deftones and Soundgarden music man, Terry Date