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Menace to Sobriety
The astonishingly and presumably deliberately inept artwork of this debut from Californian skate punks OPM helps create a carefully contrived image of a bunch of lads intent on loafing about, doing as little as possible. The threesome's modus operandi--which involves sun, sex, tattoos, getting stoned, and traveling the streets on four small wheels--is cemented by the opening tracks "Stash Up" (a paean to smoking grass and not giving a flying one for anything) and "Heaven Is a Halfpipe" (a surprisingly catchy sing-along about the joys of skateboarding). Menace to Sobriety's boisterous, good-time feel sprawls across its 15 tracks like a teenager on a particularly comfortable sofa, its bleach-top college-rock roots (Blink 182, Sugar Ray) regularly spiced up by Latino piano and horns, ska rhythms, hip-hop textures, and noisy raps. --Mike Pattenden
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Tracks| 1 | Stash Up | | 2 | Interlude: Punanny | | 3 | Heaven Is A Halfpipe | | 4 | El Capitan | | 5 | Undercover Freak | | 6 | Brighter Side | | 7 | Better Daze | | 8 | Trucha | | 9 | Dealerman | | 10 | Reality Check | | 11 | Interlude: Rage Against The Coke Machine | | 12 | Unda | | 13 | Interlude: 15 Minutes | | 14 | Fish Out Of Water |
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