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User Rating. It's frustrating when your favorite bands take several years between albums. Some no names take three to four years between releases, only to reward fans with minutes of what is essentially Our Last Record, Part Deux.

Carbondale, IL's the Copyrights feel your pain, and are here to save the day. With three LPs and two EPs under their "buzz pop" belts since , the Copyrights have consistently rewarded fans with albums full of short blasts of catchy riffs and sing-along choruses.

Albums one and three, We Didn't Come Here to Die and Make Sound , were bright, speedy pop-punk in the grand Screeching Weasel tradition, while album two, Mutiny Pop , was a shade harder in edge and darker in tone.

The same can be said for Learn the Hard Way , which also introduces just a hint of old-school hardcore in the abbreviated song lengths: nearly half of the 14 songs are in the 90 seconds or less range, with one, "Solid Connex," getting its point across in half a minute.

Aside from that welcome brevity, cranky songs like "Shit's Fucked" and "Headaches," and a newly roughened vocal tone from lead singer Adam Fletcher throughout, most notably on the hoarse "Pulse Check," further move Learn the Hard Way away from the generally sunny tone of 's Make Sound. However, this is still the Copyrights , so the band's heart remains in crisp, melodic pop-punk delivered with hooky riffs and spunky energy, even on darker-hued material like the somewhat desperate "Switchblades" which, rather than exploding into the expected transcendent fist-pumping final chorus after an atypically long instrumental break, instead builds the tension further with a repeated call and response refrain before cutting off with a dead stop.

In this context, a giddy love song like "She Turns It Up" sounds even more welcome than it might otherwise be. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.

Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Stefan Hildwein. Junk Rocker. Vince Kelt. Matthew Thorson. Purchasable with gift card. Charlie Birger Time Two Left Feet Headaches All Your People Switchblades She Turns It Up Solid Connex Out Of Ideas Sleepwalker Shit's Fucked You won't be disappointed. Classic Drone album. One thing to be aware of before listening to this: it's heavy as fffffffuck.

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Anyone who's read Steven Blush's "American Hardcore" knows that this was regarded as the first hardcore record for people from the westcoast. He says that it was either this or Pay To Cum, depending on which coast you'd ask.

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