Nite Songs

  The follow-up to last year's Single Album (logically titled then I guess) sees Fat Mike and co return and in just as much of an uncompromising mood as ever. And, let's be honest, we wouldn't have 'em any other way. Opener Darby Crashing Your Party  (named after the infamous late Germs frontman) sees Mike looking at some of his less than advisable past exploits and half-apologising, half shrugging his shoulders in the best Stiv style nihilistic fashion before My Favourite Enemy  is similarly self-critical with its brutal pummelling drums being underpinned by a surprisingly melodic tune. Don't Count On Me  is similarly brutally honest ( "It's not that I don't care/I just don't care very much" ) while packing in about five changes of pace to come up with arguably the album's highlight. As I said at the outset, Mike and co are in an unapologetic mood here with Fuck Day Six  being a brutal look at the week Mike spent in a drying out mansion th...

  I'll put my hands up and say that NOFX are one of those bands who seem to have drifted in and out of my musical listening over the past two decades. I first listened to them back in the early noughties when I was given the excellent War On Errorism  album (the record Green Day's over-rated American Idiot  should have been) to review for a 'zine I was working for at the time but I lost track of them a bit afterwards only to for them to kind of claw their way back into my consciousness over the last couple of years via an excellent split album with Frank Turner ( West Coast vs Wessex ) and Fat Mike's Cokie The Clown side project ( You're Welcome must be one of the most bleak and harrowing albums I've ever listened to but it's pretty damn amazing it has to be said). We're thrown into Single Album one at the deep end with opening track The Big Drag  being nearly six minutes long and dealing with drug related deaths and an existential crisis (very similar ...