JEW COCKS
Full Release
self-released

They’re called Jew Cocks, their 13-song debut is titled Full Release and clocks in at less than 15 minutes, and they’ve issued it not on vinyl, CD, or cassette but as a download accompanying a special edition condom packaged with an illustration of a beaming, jizz-drenched, and yarmulke-clad cartoon dick. Audiences, therefore, can be forgiven for intuiting that these Jew Cocks are delinquents. But while the spastic spirit of juvenilia abounds on Full Release, don’t make the mistake of thinking that’s all the band offers. The album does include throwaway numbers like “Yeah!” and “St. Bernardus” that appear to be inside jokes intended only for the hardest of hardcore Jew Cocks cultists, but more of its runtime is devoted to ragers that demonstrate the group’s propensity for dirty and efficient punk rock. A standout is “America,” a twisted take on “Louie Louie” that begins to make a point about the American Dream before evaporating prematurely after one verse. The best song is “Texas Vibrator Massacre,” a back-n-forth between singers Todd Sender and [L.A. RECORD contributor] Walt! Gorecki that sounds like an adrenalized Cramps riffing on “Happiness is a Warm Gun” at a Halloween carnival with Fred Schneider and guest members from the Magic Band.

—Geoff Geis