These Chicago gloom punks have long mixed gory lyrics and bright
pop melodies, making evil seem like a day at the beach. Their 2008
major-label bid, Agony & Irony, got bogged down in
power-ballad overreach, so with its seventh disc, the group is back
to its bleak-Blink-182 roots. Matt Skiba yelps stuff like "Eating
me alive" over buoyant, cutting jags. The body count rivals a
Saw flick, but Skiba eventually finds someone to
"exorcise" the "devil inside" — she's named
"Draculina,"...