2013, RIP Society

VINYL FORMAT. The debut full-length from Sydney's most aptly named power punk band—a charming mix of the best of the 1970s punk explosion with the mid-'80s US independent underground. Their approach is grounded in the UK pre-punk pubs and wild bands like Dr. Feelgood and Slade, who pre-empted the punk resergence of rock n roll in the pop charts with bold riffing and a no frills approach, much in the same manner The Replacements would do a decade later in the American midwest. This combination of the industrious post-hardcore US and the song-oriented UK punk finds expression in the devout interrogation of "Sally," in the hearbroken longing of "Bite My Tongue," and in the tribute to all-guitar riffng history of "Devotion." Imported from Australia.