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Supercharged punk rock that’s like Minor Threat with an unlikely hangover.
Brooklyn quintet Cerebral Ballzy trade in the kind of supercharged punk rock that sends kids into dizzy spins at branded festivals and stinking basements alike, but has slightly older observers in the ranks wondering what all the noise is about. On paper, titles like Don’t Tell Me What to Do and On the Run, combined with track durations that don’t leave attentions the slightest second to wander, recall Youth Crew outfits like Negative Approach and Minor Threat. But while said strain of hardcore concerned itself largely with politics and staying sober – if it concerned itself with anything, some outfits preferring nihilism over grandstanding rhetoric – this lot, when they’re not sweating themselves thin on stage, munch pizza and guzzle beer between falling off skateboards. Straight edge then, in this case, is just another rail to grind.