Sing Sing Death House by The Distillers

Sing Sing Death House, the Distillers' second album, came out on Hellcat in 2002, and it's a punk record with its teeth bared. The Los Angeles band was founded by Australian singer and guitarist Brody Dalle, who produced it with her bandmates, and she tears through these songs in a gravel-and-glass howl that makes most of her peers sound polite.

It's fast, furious street punk, all barked choruses and buzzsaw guitars, and it has a head on its shoulders too: "Seneca Falls" nods to the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 and found a wider audience through Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. "City of Angels" is the one the countdowns latched onto. Coral Fang came next.

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