#2671 Adolescents - Adolescents

Adolescents are a band outrunning themselves - relentless, flustering pacing runs through the whole album. Even when they slow down into metal chug the spitting energy just fills the space with more and more hits and strums and bristling nervousness. This is anxious music, this is music that doesn't turn off, that sluffs off sneers by the dozens, turning at least half its punk anger inward. Impossibly tight, effortlessly hooky, incredibly listenable - especially considering how fast it all pours out. Possible best West Coast punk album of the 80's 4.5/5