RUDIMENTARY PENI
The Underclass EP (Southern Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Like most dumb pre-pubescent middle-class kids in '80's Southern California, I had a Rudimentary Peni T-shirt long before I actually heard the band. Just the name sounded cool and offensive and worthy of associating oneself to. It wasn't long after getting the cool T-shirt that I started getting mix tapes of the band from friends that owned the records, and a fan was born. Lucky for me, Nick Blinko & Co. have continued to churn out pretty much the same style of offensive, hard-core, borderline metal punk rock since their inception in 1981 without sounding like they're rehashing old material-obviously a hard thing to do, judging from the material released lately by their contemporaries. This new album is just as harsh as anything else they've ever put out, and just as crass and funny, too.

© 2001 - Holly Day