The full title of the new record by the Californian pop-punk band is "I Think My Older Brother Used To Listen To Lagwagon". This is not an album or a single, but a 7-song EP in CD format, which the band has released after eight albums over the last 18 years, and which I received as a pre-release promo version. Lagwagon has been a significant name in the American punk scene for years. However, they have not yet found their way into my music collection; I have only encountered them in recent years through sampler contributions and acquaintances. Nevertheless, they offer exactly what I expected: absolutely solid, musically mature, and melodic skate-punk, just like many other bands of this genre and origin deliver. This is also the point why this band probably cannot excite me permanently - to me, this typical pop-punk with fast music and soft vocals sounds like I've heard it a thousand times before. If I were to listen to different bands of this kind, I would probably find it hard to distinguish them. Still, it's a very solid CD that will surely be well received by fans of these bands! It is noteworthy that, apart from a very brief excursion to a self-owned label, all releases since the band's beginnings have been released by Fat Wreck Chords, so there’s no switching to a major label in the band's career. The political punks from Anti-Flag have taken this step and, according to the latest information, are now playing concerts for T-Mobile among others...
Andy
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