Pour Habit

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Follow @pourhabit Got Your Back by Pour Habit It would be really easy for a lazy journalist or casual punk rock fan to unfairly pigeonhole Pour Habit without ever having heard them. After all, they’re a fast, riff heavy metallic/melodic punk band from Southern California, their name is a drinking pun and they’re on Fat Wreck Chords. However! That kind of reductive logic ignores that this is one of the most out there, genre bending artists to unapologetically mix up musical styles while weaving politics and partying together into a one of a kind manifesto that hearkens back to the early days experimentation in insurgent music. Pour Habit’s new slab, Got Your Back , comes out on Fat Wreck Chords on April 12, 2011, they’re about to have a whole lot of people talking about the way they do shit, which is frankly, pretty unusual. So, then, let’s get to it. What’s Pour Habit all about? Well, for starters, these dudes play a weird, technical hybrid of punk, metal, malt liquor and reggae. They’ve been known to spruce up their shows with break dancing, AND they can even do all this while drunk. And it’s this very combination of off-beat musical proficiency and reckless debauchery that first attracted Fat Wreck Chords to Pour Habit like bums to a guy with some cigarettes and led to the re-release of their self released debut full length, Suiticide , subsequent high profile tours with such genre heavyweights and Pennywise, Strung Out and NOFX and finally landed them back in the studio with none other than Fat Mike himself at the helm, producing their new record Got Your Back . Can you imagine the hangovers that Mike must have fought through to bring you all these riffs and all this pummeling? And make no mistake, pummeling is the result of this collaboration. Got Your Back is thirteen tracks of ball melting, face burning speed, angular riffs, genre bending and lyrics about everything from Machiavellian political maneuvering to getting totally shithoused and a vibe that can’t be