White Lung: "Paradise" review

Paradise (May 2016, Domino), is White Lung's best-produced, and most ambitious record yet. Right off the bat, it's the classic White Lung sound we love, but with more variation, nuance, and with a bend slightly more toward the exploratory. I love it, I've been listening to it all day today. It's a brand new album, with a mostly brand new sound—White Lung has few contemporaries, thanks in large part to their guitarist Kenneth William. As I understand it, he wrote most of the material here, and worked really hard with the producer to give this album its sound. They had a mind to modernity, of which I'm always a big fan. The past sucked. We can do better, with music, with everything. White Lung personifies that future-facing mentality here on Paradise.

All you ever need to know about Social Distortion

I dislike Sublime pretty heavily, and Social D was never that great to me. When they started they were really important to punks, and punks helped keep them alive, so that's good, good on them punks. But then Mike Ness started to not be on like heroin all the time so they suck now

There, that's my unedited, rambling FB comment on a friend's post. Her original thought was that she had to come out as not liking The Ramones as if she were making a big reveal.

It's okay to dislike things! When people complain and react strongly to ask what the heck is wrong with you, that means they're not giving you the freedom to like whatever you want, freedom you deserve.

So hate away, naysayers! It's healthy to have strong opinions, and it's good practice to stick to them, to make the bar high for changing your mind on it. Because then, someone's going to have to come up with a really strong and convincing argument, challenging both them and yourself, increasing the marketplace of ideas for all mankind.

Cause like I said, Sublime sux.