Redd Kross - Same 2xLP

In 1979, two school-kids all hopped-up on punk-rock started their own group in their hometown of Hawthorne, Los Angeles (birthplace of the Beach Boys) and soon found themselves opening shows for notorious scene pioneers Black Flag. Jeff McDonald was fifteen, his brother Steven McDonald only eleven. But that didn’t stop their group from becoming one of the most remarkable, enduring and unique outfits punk-rock ever belched up.

2024, then, marks Redd Kross’s forty-fifth birthday—an important anniversary for any group whose heart pulses at 45RPM—and the brothers are celebrating the event with a veritable multimedia extravaganza. There’s a memoir, Now You’re One Of Us, due in November, author Dan Epstein telling the group’s story in the McDonalds’ unmistakable (and occasionally contrary) voices. A brilliant rockumentary, Born Innocent, directed by Andrew Reich, will premiere later in the year. Most exciting of all, this new album—an eponymous double-album, no less, packed with eighteen of their sharpest, most addictive songs yet. These years of joyful service to rock’n’roll have seen Redd Kross evolve into a killer pop-rock concern, dealing in dayglo power-chords, choruses as tall as skyscrapers and a lyric sheet thick with acid couplets and arch pop-cultural references their loyal following will gobble up like quaaludes.
(In The Red/ 2024)

Tracklist:
A1 Candy Coloured Catastrophe
A2 Stunt Queen
A3 The Main Attraction
A4 Canción Enojada
A5 Good Time Propaganda Band
B1 What's In It For You?
B2 I'll Take Your Word For It
B3 Terrible Band
B4 Stuff
B5 Back Of The Cave
C1 Too Good To Be True
C2 Way Too Happy
C3 Simple Magic
C4 The Witches' Stand
D1 Lay Down And Die
D2 The Shaman's Disappearing Robe
D3 Emmanuelle Insane
D4 Born Innocent