Pennybridge Pioneers by Millencolin

Pennybridge Pioneers, the fourth album from Swedish skate-punks Millencolin, landed on Epitaph on 22 February 2000, with Brett Gurewitz producing. The title is a joke on their hometown: Örebro, playfully rendered in English, comes out as Pennybridge. It was also the first record they made outside Sweden, and you can hear them stretching. The ska punk upstrokes of the early days are mostly gone, swapped for a bigger, more alternative rock sound, with Nikola Šarčević singing and playing bass over the guitars of Mathias Färm and Erik Ohlsson and Fredrik Larzon's drums.

"Fox" and "Penguins & Polarbears" got singles and videos, and "No Cigar" found its way into Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and later editions of the game. It also became their first gold record, thanks to Australia.

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