Redd Kross - Redd Kross (2024) [Official Digital Download]

In 1979, two school-kids all hopped-up on punk-rock started their own group in their hometown of Hawthorne, Los Angeles (birthplace of the Beach Boys) and soon found themselves opening shows for notorious scene pioneers Black Flag. Jeff McDonald was fifteen, his brother Steven McDonald only eleven. But that didn’t stop their group from becoming one of the most remarkable, enduring and unique outfits punk-rock ever belched up.

2024, then, marks Redd Kross’s forty-fifth birthday—an important anniversary for any group whose heart pulses at 45RPM—and the brothers are celebrating the event with a veritable multimedia extravaganza. There’s a memoir, Now You’re One Of Us, due in November, author Dan Epstein telling the group’s story in the McDonalds’ unmistakable (and occasionally contrary) voices. A brilliant rockumentary, Born Innocent, directed by Andrew Reich, will premiere later in the year. Most exciting of all, this new album—an eponymous double-album, no less, packed with eighteen of their sharpest, most addictive songs yet. These years of joyful service to rock’n’roll have seen Redd Kross evolve into a killer pop-rock concern, dealing in dayglo power-chords, choruses as tall as skyscrapers and a lyric sheet thick with acid couplets and arch pop-cultural references their loyal following will gobble up like quaaludes.

Tracklist:
01 - Candy Coloured Catastrophe
02 - Stunt Queen
03 - The Main Attraction
04 - Cancion Enojada
05 - Good Times Propaganda Band
06 - What's In It For You_
07 - I'll Take Your Word For It
08 - Terrible Band
09 - Stuff
10 - Back Of The Cave
11 - Too Good To Be True
12 - Way Too Happy
13 - Simple Magic
14 - The Witches' Stand
15 - Lay Down And Die
16 - The Shaman's Disappearing Robe
17 - Emanuelle Insane
18 - Born Innocent


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