Consumer Guide Album

The Linda Lindas: No Obligation [Epitaph, 2024]
The third album by this nominally bilingual four-woman g-g-b-d could almost make a fella nostalgic for L.A.'s punk years, because despite the short-fast-hard roots of their now 44-year-old label, they're a band that favors classic pop-rock's 12-songs-in-40-minutes dimensions. Plus they have so much attitude it laps over into politics, from "You'd like me better if they didn't stare/You'd like me better if I grew out my hair/You'd like me if I wasn't a mess/You'd like me better if I'd put on a dress" to "This is no resolution/This is a revolution/This is a revolution/This is a revolution." Four gals can dream, thank G-d for that. B+