Cobra Skulls – Agitations (Fat Wreck Chords)
The Cobra Skulls are the best thing to come out of Reno, NV since… well, let’s be honest, up to this point not much has ever come out of Reno aside from a killer Johnny Cash lyric. But thanks to the Cobra Skulls, those who call the Biggest Little City in the World home can finally hold their heads a little higher (or at least stop saying they’re from Vegas).
On Agitations, their third full length and first for Fat Wreck Chords, the Cobra Skulls have turned in their finest record so far. Not to say the early works were bad, just not as consistently great as this one. The record catches on the second track – the bouncy, Ramones-ish “Iron Lung” - and carries on strong to the end.
With most songs clocking in at just around the two-minute mark the band gets in, tears it up and is gone before you realize just how much damage has been done. And isn’t that the way punk rock should be?
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