Swingin' Utters: Here Under Protest (2011) PLUS FREE LIVE DOWNLOAD!)

Unusual for a Fat Wreck-Chords band, San Francisco's Swingin' Utters bring a dump track full of gravel to their performance. When it all hits home, on songs like "Teenage Genocide" from their debut album or "Brand New Lungs from their new album, Here Under Protest, it's devastating. While their work can sometimes seems maddeningly inconsistent, perhaps it's just the inevitable by by-product of having multiple lead singers (original front man "Johny 'Peebucks" Bonnell often surrenders the mic to guitarist Darius Kosk not to mention 2nd guitarist Jack Dalrymple as well bassist Spike Slawson, who is also the lead singer of Me First and the Gimme-Gimme's).

The stunning kick-of to the new album, "Brand New Lungs" sounds, despite the band's insistence that they're a street-punk band, like a modern, bleaker Agent Orange song.

Live at Vienna Arena (2011-09-19)

01 Brand New Lungs (Cuts In)
02 Taking The Long Way
03 Pills And Smoke
04 Untitled 21
05 Heavy Head
06 Stupid Lullabies
07 Bent Collector Of 1,000 Limbs
08 Kick It Over
09 Five Lessons Learned
10 Jackie Jab
11 Windspitting Punk
12 Time On My Own
13 Fifteenth And T
14 As You Start Leaving
15 Forward To Fun
16 Effortless Amnesiac
17 Scary Brittle Frame
18 No Pariah
19 Teenage Genocide
20 Catastrophe
21 The Next In Line
22 Fruitless Fortunes
23 Tell Me Lies
24 Dirty Sea
25 No Eager Man


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