Retro Raunch Revisit

This was the Los Angeles punkers' 5th album released shortly after the success of their previous album's 'No Control' tour. ATG was the last record to feature drummer Pete and also one of the 1st releases to feature songs written by other members other than the usual duo of singer Greg and guitarist Brett. With it's melodic & frenetic pace balanced by quick off-the-mark vocals, catchy trademarked multi-harmonies, metronomic beat and pragmatic intellectual lyrics (largely poetic reflections on progress tackling disorder) rife with 'check-your-dictionary' wording which is not surprising coming from Greg's UCLA master's degree and Cornell's PhD, the album's rigid but exuberant textured tone in fairness is a very repetitive formula and has been stiffly criticized by many as boring but it's still a polished delivery, and anthemic with edges of ominous that also saw their hit single '21st Century Digital Boy' re-recorded 4yrs later & with a video on their 8th album, 1994's 'Stranger than Fiction' (the song is a playful homage on KING CRIMSON's '21st Cenutry Schizoid Man' from 1969). ATG was the band's first 100,000 seller, and was re-issued in Apr 2004 with new cornfield/missile art. Happy 35th Anniversary.