Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary

Tracklist
1. Private Eye
2. Mr. Chainsaw
3. Take Lots With Alcohol
4. Stupid Kid
5. Another Innocent Girl
6. Steamer Trunk
7. You're Dead
8. Armageddon
9. I'm Dying Tomorrow
10. Bloodied Up
11. Trucks and Trains
12. Crawl

This three-piece punk outfit comes out with all guns blazing on FROM HERE TO INFIRMARY. Throughout the album, the Alkaline Trio maintains a blazing, three-chord barrage whose stylistic pedigree runs through Green Day all the way back to first-generation punks like the Buzzcocks.

For an accurate picture of the Trio's approach, picture the hard-hitting hooks of a Blink 182 mated with intelligent lyrics (a rare enough commodity in heavy rock to begin with) that nearly reach the philosophical heights of Bad Religion--the degree of introspection presented in the Alkaline Trio's lyrics is unprecedented. But once you focus on the raging rhythms and guitar firestorms, everything else is gravy. Put these boys down as Green Day sans the brattiness after a few college courses.