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| | Rancid (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Back to the one-two punch of primal hardcore punk, like Discharge or the Exploited or, maybe at their most tuneful, early, early Social D. These bands all came after the Clash, but times were tough and they were reaching back to something harder, faster, louder, and less complicated even than "Clash City Rockers." |
 | | And that's where Rancid find themselves now, bashing out no fewer than 22 songs in exactly 38:22 -- which averages out to 1:45 per song. |
 | | Rancid is a meaner, denser, angrier, more explosive album than anyone had any reason to expect, though it isn't without the occasional oasis of melody, like "Let Me Go," an echo-laden anthem with a nice little rusty hook poking through the fuzztone guitars. |
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