release date: Apr. 2, 2013
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,12]
producer: Marshall Lawless
label: Alternative Tentacles - nationality: USA
[ full album ]
2nd studio album by Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School of Medicine. With this album, Biafra and T.G.S.O.M. comes out as one of Biafra's better musical projects after his time in Dead Kennedys, and the music isn't that far from the old legendary band. Not that it's a simple return to 1980's formula of hardcore punk, but it's more like how you could imagine DK would have sounded had they stayed together. Compared to the debut from 2009, the production side has improved and there's a fine balance of hardcore punk combined with industrial rock and metal, some of which comes close to the music Biafra played with Lard, D.O.A., NoMeansNo, as well as with The Melvins, and then he hasn't stopped having a critical view on his home-country, which was more blurred on the predecessor The Audacity of Hype (2009). Marshall Lawless seems like Biafra's first choice for the production seat as he has produced albums for Biafra since the early 1990s whether Biafra played in collaboration projects, alone, or in more traditional band compounds, This is an improvement to the band's music, I think, and mostly because the material is more originally diverse.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5 stars ]
