THE COPYRIGHTS Schallplatten & CDs

Review: The Copyrights are a pop punk band from Illinois who have been working steadfast on their ear-catching sound since 2003. After so many years hopping from label to label (but often orbiting Chicago's Red Scare), they're landing on the mighty Fat Wreck Chords with one of their biggest albums to date. If you know Fat Mike's label then you know what you're in for here - insanely catchy blasts of radio-friendly punk rock - but The Copyrights have been doing this long enough to know how to give their music an edge. There's a certain gnarliness in the riffs, a snarl around the edge of those big choruses, which shows they're not making throwaway chart fodder here. This is pop punk for the true lifers, and one of the band's finest achievements to date.