Teenage Bottlerocket – Sick Sesh!

Recorded in November 2020 at the Blasting Room (the band's eighth straight full-length with producer Andrew Berlin), Sick Sesh! Is a little bit rougher around the edges than the last few Teenage Bottlerocket albums, from the haunting Statistic" to the panic-inducing "Strung Out On Stress" to the buzzsaw lead of "Semi Truck." While the bulk of Sick Sesh! #was written in January 2020 (with "Statistic" actually co-written between Carlisle and his son Milo), the COVID pandemic allowed for the band to take a little extra time for fine-tuning, and the resulting tracks are some of the most stylistically diverse on the record. First up, there's the Templeman-penned "Strung Out On Stress," the fastest, angriest track on Sick Sesh!, all about losing your mind during the pandemic. On the flip side, there's the mid-tempo, melodic track "The Squirrel," written by bassist Miguel Chen and sung by Templeman, that's literally about a cute little rodent."

1. Semi Truck
2. You're Never Going Out of Style
3. Ghost Story
4. Never Sing Along
5. Strung Out on Stress
6. Statistic
7. Hello Dana
8. Spend the Night
9. The Squirrel
10. Theoretical Reality
11. Gorilla Warfare
12. Moving on

Label: Fat Wreck Chords

Catalog: 701441

Genre: Rock