Album review: Angel Du$t – Yak: A Collection Of Truck Songs

From petrol to pigs in blankets, the UK’s current lack of HGV drivers is causing a shortage of just about everything the great British public hold dear. But never fear: Baltimore’s Angel Du$t have crossed the Atlantic with their own Truck Songs to make sure that the one thing we don’t run out of this winter is tunes. Composed of members of hardcore outfits Trapped Under Ice and Turnstile, you might expect plenty of punk rock fury to match the anger of the times. But Yak is very much the calm after the storm of those acts. Instead, erstwhile TUI frontman Justice Tripp guides his cohorts through a breezy selection of songs that echo the explosion of melodic, post-punk U.S. indie-rock of the ​’80s and ​’90s. So Fear Some could be straight off an early Weezer album, Big Bite goe...

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