Birthday Suits

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Minneapolis duo Birthday Suits compress punk songs down to their most ecstatic, catchy parts. That isn't to say their songwriting is simplistic—the short tunes on last year's Spin The Bottle : Adult Party EP have their share of quick little structural twists—but guitarist/vocalist Hideo Takahashi and drummer/vocalist Matthew Kazama pretty much dispense with anything that isn't gleefully throttling the song ahead. Newer songs like "Happy Man Forty Two Late" and "Moon Bar" should fit right in with the combustive, high-kicking live sets that have made Birthday Suits a Midwestern fixture for more than a decade.

Tone Madison