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★★★☆ Prong meets Sick Of It All meets Slayer meets 311 meets Helmet. And yet it works!  The album’s twelve tracks (27 minutes total!) each hold surprises for the listener, and every twist and turn feels surprising and fresh and youthful and fun. You do get the sense that this is an early record, to be supplanted in the near future with bigger and better; likely, the band’s embrace of nostalgic production values contributes in no small part to this feeling. Even so, this is one of my favorite debuts of the year.

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