Infest

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“What is fallacious with the world nowadays?” bellows frontman Coby Dick on Infest, Papa Roach’s opening remark of intent. “The government, the media, or your circle of relatives?” Welcome to the post-Millennial American rockscape, where each and every teen has his cross to bear and each and every band approaches the recording of an album with an entire head of demons to exorcise. And welcome, Papa Roach–not a band that comes to lay waste, more a band that studies the emotionally devastated fall-out once the whole lot’s been wasted. Infest is an album very much within the mould of Limp Bizkit’s Significant Other–muscular, bruising rap-metal, dysfunctional two-fingers-to-the-world attitude–but where Limp Bizkit’s anger manifests in Fred Durst’s crotch-clutching braggadio, Papa Roach wear their issues with a sense of empathy. The likes of “Revenge” and “Broken Home” (“I know my mother loves me/ But does my father even care?”) are pretty self-explanatory, but on “Last Resort”–a brutally simplistic study of a friend’s suicide attempt–Papa Roach’s brevity is their undeniable strength. Tell the parents–here is a rock band of positive male role-models, in a position to bang the world to rights. –Louis Pattison

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