You Am I

More punk/garage LPs should be sequenced like You Am I's Convicts. In only 36 minutes (the duration of the Australian power trio's first full-length studio album since 2002's Deliverance), the band boxes your ears with "Thank God I've Hit The Bottom" before hoisting you onto the triumphant, Cheap Trick- and Clash-inspired "It Ain't Funny How We Don't Talk Anymore." "Secrets" recalls the Real Kids' best song ever recorded, "Just Like Darts," and "Explaining Cricket" will stoke all the anglophile Brit-pop fans who miss Blur.

This Australian quartet does poppy punk that vibes the Replacements or a bar-band Cheap
Trick. Convicts finds You Am I working familiar territory, topping an invigorating slop-rock
attack with ace melodies: "Gunslingers" sounds like some lost pop-rock gem from 1973.