Teenage Bottlerocket - Sick Sesh! (CD)

Recorded in November 2020 at the Blasting Room (the band's eighth straight full-length with producer Andrew Berlin), Sick Sesh! Is a little bit rougher around the edges than the last few Teenage Bottlerocket albums, from the haunting ""Statistic"" to the panic-inducing ""Strung Out On Stress"" to the buzzsaw lead of ""Semi Truck."" While the bulk of Sick Sesh! #was written in January 2020 (with ""Statistic"" actually co-written between Carlisle and his son Milo), the COVID pandemic allowed for the band to take a little extra time for fine-tuning, and the resulting tracks are some of the most stylistically diverse on the record. First up, there's the Templeman-penned ""Strung Out On Stress,"" the fastest, angriest track on Sick Sesh!, all about losing your mind during the pandemic. On the flip side, there's the mid-tempo, melodic track ""The Squirrel,"" written by bassist Miguel Chen and sung by Templeman, that's literally about a cute little rodent.