Our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past seven days is 9th & Walnut, the brand new one from Descendents. Here’s your chance to revisit the review and check out the album via Spotify.
“Punk rock has many stimulating qualities (and just as many faults), but one of the most exciting is the speed by which it seems to be able to jack directly into our nervous systems, usually provoking fight not flight, instinctive reactions amongst both the converted and the innocents.”
“Of course, throwing a blanket over the movement is a thankless task, so fractured and fractious has it been since its innumerable cadres blossomed and, in some cases, withered.”
“In LA, punk hit hard and fast; the city one of its first jump off points, a genesis captured brilliantly in Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen’s excellent book We Got The Neutron Bomb.”
“From further down the bay in Manhattan Beach, Descendents began as a trio in 1977 before later recruiting Milo Aukerman on vocals, escaping over time their musically indeterminate beginnings as a pop/punk/surf rock hybrid and becoming major players in the hardcore scene which gave a breakout platform to the likes of Black Flag and the Dead Kennedys.”
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