Unglued Reviews

Before serving up 2006’s full-length platter, Wolves In Wolves’ Clothing, those great-granddaddies of skate punk NOFX delivered this six-track EP as a taster to leave many mouths watering for more.

Lead track Seeing Double At The Triple Rock harks back to their early nineties material – a barely two minute blast of punk rock that raises no more issues than drinking your quota in Minnesota but is a frenzy of chugging guitar fun. The Marxist Brothers, in contrast, marries dub-ska influenced verses with a mid-tempo rock chorus and digs at social idealists (including Propaghandi), leading to a dynamic conclusion with a shredding guitar solo.

The first of the four tracks exclusive to the EP is an energetic, uncomplicated cover of Vagina Dentata’s Golden Boys, followed by a left turn into acoustic territory for You’re Wrong. This track is a didactic list of the many stupidities believed in by the far-right, but unfortunately lacks any form of argument (besides common sense, of course) to convert them.

Everything In Moderation (Especially Moderation) is another hyperactive attack in the vein of the lead track and finds singer/bassist Fat Mike musing on his place in punk rock at age 39, while the melodic punk I’m Going To Hell For This One is the closest in sound to the band’s last album, The War On Errorism.

Never Trust A Hippy may also be worth purchasing just for the irreligious cover.

Owen Heitmann