SOMETHING FIERCE

Don’t Be So Cruel

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Neither “Future Punks” nor this disc’s title cut is a reggae song, but with their sparse guitars and go-go basslines, both songs have the agitated bounce of “Police and Thieves,” the Clash’s first foray into Jamaican music. Something Fierce has clearly been studying the Clash closely, but the Houston trio is equally fond of the Jam and the Undertones—groups that knew crummy economic and political circumstances are no reasons to make depressing music. Frontman Steven Garcia sings about greed, guns, globalization and the war in Afghanistan, but Don’t Be So Cruel remains a top-down party record. “What we need now ain’t coming today,” Garcia sings, looking to rock ’n’ roll to point the way forward.

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