Dark Thoughts

With 10 of 12 tracks coming in under two minutes and the band making minimal use of chords, you could easily be misled into thinking you've heard this album thousands of times before. But actually, you haven't.

Dark Thoughts finds some separation from the pack by being effectively straightforward in a genre that tends to grow stagnant whenever anyone's foolish enough to attempt the feat. So many bands have tried and failed miserably at songs frequently and unfairly categorized as Ramones-core.

While Dark Thoughts certainly embraces an archetype, it does so with an infallible mixture of venom and pure feeling. Every song on Dark Thoughts would be a worthy single, but the record functions as its own standalone entity as well, skews as close to Fix My Brain as it does Rocket to Russia.