Consumer Guide Album

Tyvek: Overground [Ginkgo, 2023]
From what I read, this is the seventh studio album albeit first in seven years from a Detroit punk unit not in my recall memory, and at this historical moment does its indomitable riffing sound fresh. Eight of 11 songs with titles like "What Were We Thinking" and "Going Through My Things" are two minutes or less; they encounter firehoses, U-Hauls, delivery handbooks from the post office. Eventually, however, the seven-minute closer "Overground" feels duty bound to advise us that there's "no point going underground" even if "the nation-state makes liars of us all." None of which is as glum as it might be because the jangling guitars and crashing cymbals remain the kind of kick in the ass we can always use. A-