Shut Your Mouth by Frenzal Rhomb

Shut Your Mouth, Frenzal Rhomb's fifth album, came out on 20 November 2000, and it's the Sydney punks' brush with a major label: the first and only record of theirs that Epic put out in Australia, with Fat Wreck Chords handling it around the world. Coming off A Man's Not a Camel, it's still fast, snotty skate punk, Jay Whalley barking over Lindsay McDougall's guitar and Gordy Forman's drums, with Lex Feltham also in the ranks.

The band are its harshest critics. Looking back in 2023, Whalley called it the record everyone agrees is their worst, and McDougall didn't argue, blaming flat songwriting and a bad working relationship with their producer. The silver lining, both said, was the fat advance: Epic dropped them less than six months later, and Sony never asked for the money back. Epitaph and Shock later reissued it at home with the American track listing.

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