Track Listing 1. Dark Places, The 2. Young and Depressed 3. Heard That Sound 4. Cold Streets 5. Story, The 6. Wrecking Hotel Rooms - (with Mark Hoppus) 7. Late Again 8. Kicking and Screaming 9. Grey Skies Turn Blue 10. Emotional Anarchist 11. Call in Sick 12. Get Me Out 13. Waiting For the World to End 14. This Weekend
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Mark Hoppus | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes MxPx: Michael Herrera (vocals, bass guitar); Thomas Wisniewski (guitar); Yuri Ruley (drums). Recording information: 2005. Thirteen years into the game, MxPx have gone from being fresh-scrubbed high school students playing punk with a Christian bent to wizened vets in a scene where musicians barely into their thirties are practically middle-aged. For PANIC, these Washington natives have instead turned towards a more traditional, SoCal punk sound. Amid the harmonies and choppy guitar are opportunities to play spot-the-influence. "Late Again" has a cow-punk vibe melded with soccer-style chanting that comes off as Social Distortion-meets-Dropkick Murphys. Although not as breakneck as Bad Religion, MxPx does a fair approximation of the former on "Kicking and Screaming," with vocalist/bassist Mike Herrera sounding farily close to BR frontman Greg Graffin. MxPx is still a pop-punk band at heart, so angst still plays a major role in the songwriting, with Herrera lamenting life on the road within the confines of the mid-tempo, Blink-182-like "Wrecking Hotel Rooms" (featuring Blink's Mark Hoppus) and railing at love's injustice on the anthemic "Emotional Anarchist."
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