How It Works by Bodyjar

How It Works, the fourth album from Australian pop-punks Bodyjar, came out in 2000 and captured a band at full throttle. Cameron Baines sings and plays guitar, Grant Relf sings and plays bass, and Tom Read, newly arrived on guitar in place of Ben Petterson, adds fresh muscle to the attack.

It's fast, tight and melodic, the kind of skate-punk that lives on gang vocals, buzzsaw guitars and choruses you can shout back at the stage. "Not the Same" proved the point, turning up in the skateboarding game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 in 2001 and the motocross game MX Superfly in 2002. The album reached number 19 on the ARIA chart at home, and Nitro Records issued it in the US to line up with the band's run on the 2001 Warped Tour. Plastic Skies followed.

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