If “bad attitude” was a genre of music, you’d find Fidlar filed neatly under it.

The Los Angeles band’s second album is a concoction of bratty lyrics, thrashy guitar riffs and yowling vocals courtesy of Elvis Kuehn and Zac Carper – which unsurprisingly adds up to a huge amount of fun.

True, there's sometimes a feeling that certain songs are millimetres away from Blink-182, but the ragged garage-punk of Bad Medicine and the slack indiepop of Stupid Decisions and Why Generation are impossible to resist, while lines like "I figured out when I got sober/That life just sucks when you get older" display a healthy sense of humour on the foursome's behalf.

Its loud, energetic, snot-nosed punk style perfectly straddles atonal and melodic – what’s not to like?

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