Shop Fronts

much in the tradition of the earliest American hardcore acts, with shouty male-female vocals over two-minute, two-chord tunes that manage a certain level of tunefulness among the high-velocity rhythms and deliberately amateurish playing. There is nothing whatsoever new or different about the Shop Fronts, but the quartet do their thing with more than enough enthusiasm for all but the most churlish fans of the style to overlook the way that parts of "Runaround" sound almost exactly like the Buzzcocks' "Just Lust," or the obvious influences of bands like the Dickies on "I Wanna Be Free."