Artist: Matt Skiba and the Sekrets
Album: Babylon
Genre: Rock
Label: Superball Music
On paper, this could come across as an unremarkable group jamming session involving members of Alkaline Trio, AFI, and My Chemical Romance. Yet Babylon is no such thing. Far from an indulgent explosion of pop-rock posturing, this is a mature, controlled, and confident release. It is conceived and executed with the richly evocative style one associates with all of these bands but perhaps more particularly with Alkaline Trio, which is unsurprising as Babylon is more or less entirely Skiba’s project. The songs are immediately and uproariously catchy, …

