Well after much speculation and rumors here it is. We’ve been waiting for over ten years and it has finally arrived – Leftover Crack Volume III: Constructs of the State. Not only is it the band’s first full-length in over a decade, but it’s the first full-length on Fat Wreck Chords and the first full-length without original member Ezra Kire.
A lot was at risk with this record. After such a long time without writing new material, would it hold up with the classic Mediocre Generica and Fuck World Trade? Would it be the same Leftover Crack that we all know and love or with Ezra’s departure and newly added members, would the new songs make them sound like a completely different band—or even worse a caricature of what they once were?
The stakes were high when Sturgeon and company decided to write Constructs of the State, but with high risk can come high reward and that is exactly what happened here. They hit the jackpot. And with a long list of punk rock icons and allies like Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy and Classics of Love, Penny Rimbaud of Crass, Joe Jack Talcum of The Dead Milkmen, and Kate Coysh of Reivers, plus members of The Bouncing Souls, Dark Dark Dark, Blackbird Raum, Mischief Brew, Days N Daze, Chewing on Tinfoil, The Riverboat Gamblers, Rats in the Wall, and Intro5pect lending their talents to help with this project how could Leftover Crack have gone wrong?
Despite the changes to the line up of the band, Constructs of the State shows that they very much pushed themselves to make it sound different compared to their other releases and experiment by going in a much more sonically hardcore and lyrically blunt and confrontational direction, while still staying true to their overall original sound.
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