All - Shreen 10"All Shreen 10" "All go into the famous Memphis studio Ardent (Big Star, Replacements, '60s Stax soul) and debut yet another new singer, Chad Price, on this teaser 10" for the Breaking Things LP. What's confusing is the presence on backing vocals of the band's original vocalist back from their Descendents days, Milo Auckerman. (All moved from L. A. to Missouri in 1991; Auckerman lives in Madison, WI. How did they meet up for this?) Perhaps it's

We follow behind

And while the electronics revel in comparisons with the proto-electronic sound of Suicide and the rhythms of Z'ev

On their odyssey they encounter a cast of hobos and runaways

" - Alison Alber / Mxdwn

while suffused with the usual punk conceits (alienation

irony and sincerity

and Oscar Brown

with everyone involved contributing to the production and J

revealing a compositional and interpretive maturity that is not within everyone's reach

At this point in the film

cool guitar effects

merge to create a collection of tracks that have been forged in a totally fucked and sonically chaotic storm of pus and goo