[3.5/5] Most musicians start simple and then grow progressively more technical, not the other way around. But in Nothington's case, guitarist/singer Jay Northington and drummer Gabe Lindeman have scaled back the riffs and poppy time changes of their last band, the now-defunct Tsunami Bomb, to deliver a stark, straight-ahead pub-punk offering. Sure, they're not necessarily mining new territory-songs like "The Bottom Line," "The Last Time" and 'Where Is This Going?" gallop with the streetwise, barroom-meets-heartland signifiers of punk folk that Mike Ness and the like have been making popular since the '80s. Northington's vocals, gruff and lacerated, sound forced at first but ultimately work well with the gristly punk maneuvers. By comparison, just one call-to-arms chorus on "Where I Stand" is better than Tsunami Bomb's entire catalog, so as far as we're concerned, they're going in a great direction on their debut. (BYO) Casey Lynch
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