Pennywise
Full Circle
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This album features the punk revival godfathers giving a hostile message to the Conservative Right -- a message that has to do with opening the eyes and ears of the 40 zillion skate kids who worship the band and the other groups inspired by their records. Punk rock hasn't shown this kind of intensity since the Reagan years.
On earlier records, these California speed punks have been more about raw energy than memorable tunes, but on this well-produced statement of principles, they channel some fine West Coast punk exemplars (Dead Kennedys, Unwritten Law) and manage to sprinkle some solid hooks and choruses among their breakneck rhythms.CHRISTIAN HOARD
Read More CLASS="grey">(RS 932, October 2, 2003)
The energy on this album is par for the course for Pennywise, but it blows away many other mainstream Punk bands. These SoCal boys started out sounding remarkably like Bad Religion, but they soon established a sound that's mostly their own. Their fifth album shows them honing their ripping, melodic Hardcore Skate Punk to a deadly point.
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