The Henry Clay People: Twenty-Five For The Rest Of Our Lives
Nostalgia tends to emphasize the positive, and while The Henry Clay People’s newest record readily harkens to the band’s past—the reassembled original lineup returns to punk-revival form after trying boozy roots music on 2010’s Somewhere On The Golden Coast—it does so with a heavy dose of cynicism. For a group known for its boisterous slacker anthems, Twenty-Five For The Rest Of Our Lives doesn’t celebrate the apathy of youth as much as lament the unfulfilled dreams and compromise that awaits in adulthood. Thankfully, these bleak ruminations don’t detract from the album’s high-energy, wildly brash, power-chord-pounding execution.
