V/A No Coast: Punk Compilation CD
I’m not from the US, so a lot of your references are lost on me, one of which is “the Midwest.” It’s as vast and unknowable as the bottom of the ocean, or Narnia or Middle Earth or something to me, and so I can only assume that it causes the kind of psychic and cosmic damage that would result in some of the output on this record. Sixteen tracks of some of the most generic, garage band, milquetoast “street punk” going. It sounds like copyright-free library music. If this is the best the Midwest has to offer, then I’m joining the liberal coastal elite. Pass.