Why so angry, Fred? sounds like the man has been cranking up the Nirvana and Henry Rollins lately, which explains his choice of producer: the Chicago punk deity Steve Albini (Big Black, the Jesus Lizard, Nirvana). Not that Schneider has lost any of his old buoyant sense of the ridiculous. It's just that he's now singing to the sound of raging guitars. Most astonishing is how well it works.

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