Less Than Jake

The longstanding Punk-Pop/Third Wave Ska band sounds more like Cheap Trick than Green Day on this, their ninth full-length release. In case you're wondering, that's a very good thing, as the guitars crash, the melodies snap and the whole package is as tightly wound as a hormone-ravaged teenager on the last day of school.

Less Than Jake were a little late for ska pop's moment in the sun back in the mid-Nineties,
but they'll be damned if this pop-punk wave passes them by. Their sixth album, Anthem, is
a precision-produced guided missile seeking the hearts of socially awkward skate punks
everywhere. Alarmingly crisp songs such as "The Ghosts of Me and You" and "That's Why
They Call It a Union" are full of disaffected sneers, aimed at ex-lovers and hopele... More >