The Van Pelt are one of those cult bands that have in layman’s terms a love/hate relationship with the punk fraternity, although fraternity is never a word I would use normally in the punk world, it just reminds me too much of art school nonsense, but anyway it seems to fit here. They grew up mostly in the mid 90’s when American hardcore was maybe trying to fizzle out a little, and Emo was becoming much more of a mainstream thing. So where do this band actually fit?, well it was never a scene I bought into at the time, so I would as an outsider looking in, say they are an Indie/Emo crossover of a an outfit. Now lets jump fully into the here and now, this latest album comes along a full 25 years or so after the last, so can we even sit and make comparisons, I’d say no, this has ...