This album, we’re told, brings together the entirety of MESS‘s recorded output between 2020 & 2022, from the band’s inception to their last recordings prior to their debut album. It’s all freshly laundered and remastered and a lot of it hasn’t been available before, so as an historical document, it is an important artefact in the display case of Mexican punk rock. But what is it like as an album? Well, bonus points for touching on most of the bases of second wave punk. Opener True Love is old school shouty punk from the UK Subs school. Street Boys veers into tuneful powerpop of the kind popularised by the Good Vibrations stable, but topped with that raspy Jimmy Pursey vocal. Authoritarian Tools has an early Skids feel with a dash of GBH. The Only Judge tips its hat to Pursey again. Sospecha brings The Exploited to the genre party with Blown To Bits riffing. Don’t Look Back deploys a simple and effective chord sequence, tunefully looping its way round for two-and-a-half minutes...