The astonishingly and presumably deliberately inept artwork of this debut from Californian skate-punks OPM helps create a carefully contrived image of a bunch of lads intent on loafing about doing as little as possible. The threesome's modus operandi--sun, sex, tattoos, getting stoned and travelling the streets on four small wheels--is cemented by the opening tracks "Stash Up" (a paean to smoking grass and not giving a flying one for anything) and "Heaven Is A Halfpipe" (a surprisingly catchy singalong about the joys of skateboarding). Menace To Sobriety's boisterous, good-time feel sprawls across its 15 tracks like a teenager on a particularly comfortable sofa, its bleach-top college rock roots (Blink 182, Sugar Ray) regularly spiced up by Latino piano and horns, ska rhythms, hip-hop textures and noisy raps. --Mike Pattenden