Nofx
Pump Up the Valuum

THE REVIEW

I wanted to review this album because I was disappointed that there were no reviews of Nofx on the site, even though I understand there's not much to judge in their records since none of the members are great musicians or composers, but when they want, they know how to deliver engaging and smashing songs that fill you with energy, and this album surely confirms it!!!

I don’t think it's necessary to describe one song after another given the short duration of each track. The CD contains 14 tracks, all with extraordinarily fast drum tempos that are hard to keep up with and with truly silly lyrics that make you fall to the ground laughing after just reading the first line.
This, in my opinion, is the band's best album (perhaps even better than the famous Punk In Drublic - 1994). When it first came out (in 2000, produced by Epitath Records), I rushed to listen to it and was truly enchanted by the immediacy of the tracks that hit you on the first listen and stay in your head for weeks on end because they're very digestible and, sometimes, this is also a merit for me, because in the long run you can get tired of songs that never end.
Worth mentioning is the main track of the CD, "Theme From A Nofx Album" which, with a slow and pleasant waltz, tells the life of each member of the group starting with the drummer Erik Sandin, passing by the guitarists Erik Melvin and El Hefe, ending with the presentation of the band’s frontman, singer-bassist Fat Mike where the music suddenly becomes truly punk, destroying everything and leaving us breathless.

This is where the album ends, and I swear if you’re a fan of true hardcore punk you definitely won’t regret buying this album.