Sum 41

With the smash hit single ”"Fat Lip" leaping out of the speakers like a bolt of lightning, Sum 41's major label debut is a fun and boisterous take on the skater-sanctioned Punk-Pop explosion of recent years, with an infectious dose of Beastie Boys-brand rapping thrown in to encourage yelling along.

If you're barely out of your teens and you're skateboarding onto the third or fourth wave
of punk rock, you'd better have twice the sense of humor and half the pretension.
Canada's Sum 41 like to set things on fire and admit they sometimes wish they hadn't chosen
that name, and their debut video makes them out as vintage Orange County pranksters. In
other words, they're new-millennium punk - slick, self-aware master entertaine... More >

Teenpunk alienation at its most normal, with Satan impinging from the wings ("Heart Attack," "Motivation") (Grade - *)