The Adolescents - Adolescents - VINYL LP

With a voice that seems to speak to us from the heart of the Estonian forest, Mari Kalkun's music is at once of a place and deeply personal. Rooted in ancient Estonian and Võru traditions, but beautifully fresh and contemporary, Stories of Stonia reaches back to very old layers of tradition to imagine what Mari's ancestors would have thought and sung about the world in an era of skyscraper, steel and metal. Throughout the album's nine songs, Mari explores humanity's controversial relationship with nature with powerfully emotive musical backdrops. One of Northern Europe's most important folk singers Mari has created a mysterious and magical album.

Caesar Salad Days is the eleventh ADOLESCENTS album. It is a pre-pandemic product of the pandemic. The songs are written before the pandemic, and were recorded in the middle - somewhere during May of 2022. They are revisits of songs released over the last 35 years.  A sampler, of sorts. So these songs go back a few years and came from a number of time periods ranging from 1980 to 2018. Early on I realized that I didn't have the money to pull off this recording task. We weren't playing shows and so there was no income. What I did have was lots of stuff I could sell using online auction websites. And so I did. I sold like a fool through most of the first couple of pandemic years until I saved enough. It felt good to accomplish that. I then pitched the idea of recording to the band. Everyone was receptive and the pandemic made getting together a gift, so it was  agreed that we would make a record. It would be a straightforward run through a selection of songs that have been part of our set over the last few years. This would be the song list for the recording.

A timeless EP of West Coast hardcore goodness- three loud, angry blasts that never get old. Hence the name ADOLESCENTS! Frontier decided to it on 10Inch vinyl to maximize the excellent Thom Wilson production (we discovered Thom Wilson, so there!) and the tremendous Edward Colver cemetery photograph that includes Casey and Rikk, even though they had already left The Adolescents.