FIDLAR

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Fidlar

Thanks to a recommendation from my old roommate Louis, I checked out Fidlar.  If punk is your poison, then this will be essential listening.  It is, without a doubt, the best punk music I've heard in years.  This self-titled debut from this Los Angeles quartet is absolutely filled with short, extremely listenable gems.  The sound is raw like a scraping nail filer, but these So-Calers are very musical.  That musicality distniguishes them from their punk peers who may know how to rock but have no idea how to write a song.  Fidlar knows how to write and such consistentcy makes this album an absolutely joy to listen to from start to finish. Highlights include "White On White," "Max Can't Surf," "Paycheck" and "Cocaine"—Fidlar's epic, druggy magnum opus which closes out their album (but not before concluding with a Replacements-like coda). 

Fidlar