RUDE

On their second album, indie-rock punks Spiritual Cramp take you on a spin through the fictional radio station Wild 87 and their “San Francisco rude boy” sound. Led by vocalist Michael Bingham and bassist Mike Fenton, Spiritual Cramp embrace a musical style that references the Ramones (“Go Back Home”), Interpol (“Automatic”) and Devo (“Young Offenders”), among others. RUDE is a love letter to their stomping grounds that includes a middle finger to Bingham’s new home of LA on “True Love (Is Hard to Find)”. “I Hate the Way I Look” self-loathes in the tongue-in-cheek spirit of Viagra Boys, while “Violence in the Supermarket” goes full dub, and in an unexpected twist, Bingham duets with LA singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten on the reggae-inflected “You’ve Got My Number”.