Gallantly Streaming: FIDLAR's Beach Party At The Threshold Of Hell

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Stream FIDLAR's debut album here, courtesy Pitchfork.

Playing like the coked-up soundtrack to a B-movie, the debut album from scuzzed out party rockers FIDLAR (or Fuck It Dog Life's A Risk) has pretty much one gear, and that gear is high.

Over 14 tracks of ragged garage punk and demonic surf rock, FIDLAR rarely deviates from its prime directive; make no mistake, this is not an album of hidden meanings, grand statements, or emotion of any kind. Excess abounds, from the opening bargain brew jam Cheap Beer to self explanatory album closer Cocaine.

Channeling the raw power of (among others) The Hives, L7 and Bon Scott-era AC/DC, FIDLAR throws it all into a blender and chugs it down without hesitation. The album gets a little old a little quickly, but it never fails to deliver as advertised. It's disposable but fun, unrefined but pleasing; like Andrew WK if he really meant partying when he sang about partying, FIDLAR's debut is loud, raw and dangerously appealing.

FIDLAR comes out Tuesday on Mom + Pop.

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