Leftover Crack New Album 2013

*featured photo by I’ve never felt like such a hypocrite while listening to a record. There I was at my desk job, starting the grind, when I put on my headphones to see the notification that the new Leftover Crack album, Constructs of the State, was finally out. I fumbled with my headphones and pressed play. Sitting there in my ergonomic chair at my black, glass-topped Ikea work table, I felt a wave of self-loathing creep over me.

Not that there’s anything wrong with having a comfortable chair and good workspace, but the album was a kick in the ass for me; a return to the purity of my naive adolescence. And to me, that is a purpose that punk rock is meant to serve. Social control, racism, sexism, over-zealous protection of property, avaricious consumerism, rampant policing: the content of Constructs of the State is charged with a relevance that stems naturally from the band’s decade-old Fuck World Trade. You must have listened to Constructs of the State by now, I know. If that’s not the case, then shame on you. Maybe you had misgivings that the new record wouldn’t live up to the band’s previous two now legendary albums.

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Sure, it’s the first album by the band in 11 years and there’s a lot for Constructs to live up to. It’s normal to have doubts and fears.

But your fears are unfounded and blatantly wrong. Oh, so wrong. I swear I tried to be critical, but it’s hard not to espouse the brilliance of this album. It’s just rare to hear a song you really like the first listen though, much less 13 songs in row are like that. If there’s any criticism to make, maybe it’s that there aren’t enough risks taken in the sound.

But I don’t even really believe that. Besides, if we’re being honest, we all just wanted to hear a good Leftover Crack album. Listen to the first song and that should comfort you. Office Software Protection Platform Service Disable. Then it’ll scare you into that frenzy that LoC is so well-known for. This is an album that you owe it to yourself to listen to the whole way through.

Download Software Desain Baju Bola Adidas here. It’s diverse, novel, but somehow remains true to Leftover Crack’s older stuff. It’s a radical, fiery ride. The politics are unsurprisingly strong and unapologetic on this record, sure to piss off conservatives, your parents and many others. The record features an amalgam of guests from bands like Blackbird Raum, Dayz ‘N Daze and the Bouncing Souls. The amount of guest work on this album is truly astonishing. Penny Rimbaud of Crass even contributed to this masterpiece.

Despite the number of contributions to the album, Constructs of the State belongs to Leftover Crack. The record doesn’t fuck around when it comes to grabbing your attention. Fast-paced, hardcore and wonderfully crusty, “Archaic Subjugation” gets right into it before suddenly dropping you off into the next song, which takes a more subtle, Leftover-Cracky guitar progression with a super-catchy, super-relevant hook: “Don’t shoot till you see the whites of their skin.” “Don’t Shoot” is an anti-cop anthem that is sure to delight the hearts of all the aging crust punks out there.

My personal favorite song on the record is “Lonelieness and Heartache.” The melody is fun and the chorus does something rare for a Leftover Crack song: it throws in a harmonized choir-y kind of thing. “It’s a dent in the skin, you’re sliding it in/That’s how it goes goes goes.” “System Fucked!” opens with a poignant line from Boyz in the Hood. And then, is that, no, it can’t be Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy, Common Rider, Classics of Love fame and legend. “System Fucked!” is a trenchant ode to the class structure that benefits the wealthy, coercing lower classes into joining a military they otherwise wouldn’t support. And then, boom, the riff that blasts out of “Slave to the Throne” is, and there’s no better way to put it, just so damn cool. It’s unexpected in the way that gives you chills time and time again. I had to restart “Corrupt Vision” several times, listening to the opening dialogue (yes, that was Matthew McConaughey), which is a perfectly eery introduction to the rolling bass line that follows.

THE BIG QUESTION OF THIS ALBUM IS – how does it compare with the other LoC records? I had to wrestle with this question for over a week. I re-listened Mediocre Generica, Fuck World Trade, the Choking Victim records, Morning Glory (although original LoC member and MG frontman Ezra isn’t on this record) and F-Minus; pretty much anything to which Stza has ever contributed.

Is Constructs as good as the first two LoC records? I posit that yes, yes it is. It’s not too different, but it’s not the same. The sound and the content of the songs comes from the same place; it’s just more developed and the message more mature. Ya know when Leftover Crack covered Choking Victim songs, but it’s really the same band with a more refined recording?

That’s kinda what Constructs of the State feels like. All in all, Constructs of the State is an evolved record from veteran punk rockers that even old Choking Victim fans will appreciate. The direction and refinement (which isn’t usually a good thing) on this record totally justifies the 11-year wait. Leftover Crack released Constructs of the State through Fat Wreck Chords in November 2015. The band heads out for more US dates at in February and March with Anti-Flag, War on Women, Blackbird Raum and more before heading to Australia for a run of shows, dates for which can be found below.