The distinguished gentlemen of Urge Overkill are rock stars. If you don't believe it, just ask them. They've been shouting it from the rooftops ever since they released Jesus Urge Superstar, their first full-length LP, in 1989. Six years later, they're issuing their fifth long-playing declaration of their celebrity: It's called Exit the Dragon, and it's an exceptional follow-up to Urgè's 1991...

Urge Overkill's shtick precedes them. With a swagger owing as much to Dean Martin as to the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones, the Chicago trio are a sartorial glitch in a flannel decade. Now, with the band's fourth and best full-length record, Urge's music – which has always swung as flamboyantly as their oversize medallions – may finally get its due.

Saturation is to grunge what Cheap Trick's...