“L.A.’s FIDLAR are happily regressive – playing brain-dead beach punk that suggests the Germs or Hives at their most uproariously half-assed. The band’s name comes from the skateboarding maxim “Fuck It, Dog, Life’s a Risk,” and its debut bursts with hot sludge and lazy slop-rock jags tied to titles like “Wake Bake Skate,” “Cheap Beer” and “Max Can’t Surf ” (reason: “He’s got no balance!”). Along wi”
“The L.A. skate-punk band's debut full-length is full of snotty songs about cheap beer, cheap cocaine, cheap weed, and "shitty pills." They're not reinventing the wheel, but FIDLAR have their references down.”
