A late-'90s trio whose rough-edged sound smoothed out over a decade of lineup changes.
For their early, rougher side, "Irish Car Bom" still hits. The later track "Crossbow" shows how they held onto the energy while tightening things up.
They landed with a straightforward punk EP called "The Cannibal Years" in 1998, then built a following with songs like "Irish Car Bom" from the 2000 album "Can't Make Friends." Their melodic but energetic approach felt like a bridge between punk's urgency and something a little more tuneful, especially by the time of 2003's "Sorry About Tomorrow."
They started as a trio in Massachusetts in 1998. After "Can't Make Friends" and "Sorry About Tomorrow," the lineup shifted with members leaving in 2006 and 2007, and Andy Jackson kept it going with new players for one more album in 2005 before the band ended around 2011.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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