RamTatTa - ADOLESCENTS – manifest density

Punks never die, especially not at the end of their youth. And adolescents, in English "adolescent", are not quite the ADOLESCENTS anymore. How could they be, when they have been shaking up the West Coast since 1980 alongside BAD RELIGION, SOCIAL DISTORTION, and the DEAD KENNEDYS with their melodic hardcore punk? The saying 'the older, the better' also applies to the ADOLESCENTS, who, after their successful 80s, and the almost equally successful reunion years at the beginning of the new millennium, are now in their third spring and have been delighting old and many new fans with a new album almost every year for the past 7 years.
This will also be the case for the ADOLESCENTS with their 13th album (if I'm correctly informed, including their E.P.s). The 13 songs on "Manifest Density" come across as powerfully as ever, without being over the top. 32 minutes of the finest listening pleasure, which I have already indulged in dozens of times at full volume. The music is simply punchy, not the bones of the 5 not-so-young West Coast melodic hardcore punk rockers.
Okay, there is no Number One hit among the 13 songs this time either, but there are no failures either. It is what it is, and it comes as it comes. The same procedure as every year. Consistently good....
The booklet of "Manifest Density" is okay, starting with a strong cover, containing all the lyrics, and ending with a typically American-dimmed solar system inlay card. However, more could have been made of it.
One bonus point for the limited colored 12" LP with MP3s; I think I will get that. But it means being quick, or else it will be gone.....

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