With No Means No -Sky Is Fall

After working with Canadian punks DOA on his previous collaboration album, Jello Biafra hooked up with Alternative Tentacles signees No Mean sNo for the abrasive, brilliantly skewed the Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy album. The latter, with their angular art aggression, makes for a more distinct vehicle for Biafra than DOA, bursting with power and screwy inventiveness. The title track alone is worth the price of admission; Biafra's rant about nuclear satellites and paranoia is matched by the music perfectly, and the track serves as the missing link between an older style of punk and the work of underground '90s acts like Unwound. White-hot guitar lines scrape and snarl over the stuttering rhythm while Biafra rages through as only he can. Chew starts with minimal guitar snarls and whines floating around a low-key rhythm before fully springing to life, alternating between epic explosions and low-key tension over the song's length.