LAGWAGON - Duh: Reissue 2xLP

Label: Fat Wreck Chords

Lagwagon is easily one of the best punk bands to come out of the early nineties, and their albums are finally receiving the remaster-and-reissue treatment. For those that don’t know, Duh was Lagwagon’s debut album and featured a very unrefined version of what they would eventually become. It was an album that flirted with serious topics and random humor without any real sense of direction, but it worked. The music itself was raw punk rock with the occasional ‘out of left field’ moment, and featured vocalist Joey Cape at his grittiest.

The biggest complaint about Duh, other than its unrefined nature, was the album’s thin sound. On this 2011 reissue, the thin sound has been updated finally bringing their debut closer to the sound of the rest of their discography. As an added bonus, it also comes full of demos and early unreleased tracks.

Lagwagon are easily one of the best punk bands to come from the nineties scene and this reissue was a long time coming.