First Ditch Effort arch hill recordings Other unreleased tracks include a

Other unreleased tracks include a cover of the Oblivians' "Memphis Creep" and three tracks from a shelved Montreal session: "Can't Do It Anymore

particularly on the minor-key ballad "About a Girl" and the dense churn of "Blew

That elapsed time meant that the album was positioned as something of a comeback

Selections such as "The Girls" seem like brief previews of the type of lush vistas observed on his main albums

and keyboards to create a raw

First Ditch Effort arch hill recordings Other unreleased tracks include aNOFX's 2016 LP, First Ditch Effort, follows their usual SoCal sound: simple melodies, big guitars, winsome bass, and drumming. But the lyrics hold deeper surprises. Fat Mike pokes fun at the drinking, drugs ("Six Years on Dope", "California Drought"), his cross dressing ("I'm a Transvest lite"), and low self esteem ("I Don't Like Me Anymore"), and rails against pharma ("Oxy Moronic"). Sometimes funny, other times sincere ("Generation Z", "I'm So Sorry