Leftöver Crack Drops New Album ‘Constructs of the State,’ First New Album in 11 Years

Leftöver Crack's first album in 11 years, Constructs of the State, is out today via Fat Wreck Chords. The new 13-track release features a long roster of punk icons including Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy, Penny Rimbaud of Crass, Joe Jack Talcum of The Dead Milkmen, Kate Coysh of REIVERS as well as members of The Bouncing Souls, Dark Dark Dark, Blackbird Raum, Mischief Brew, Days N Daze, Chewing on Tinfoil, The Riverboat Gamblers, Rats in the Wall and Intro5pect.
The new album dropped today as a part of Record Store Day Black Friday. However, the band is urging fans to either pre-order the release or wait a day to purchase it in observance of Buy Nothing Day, an international day of protest against consumerism celebrated every Black Friday in North America and the last Saturday of November globally.

Constructs of the State marks the band's return since 2004's controversial album F*ck World Trade. It also marks the band's return from its 11-year hiatus prompted by drummer Brandon Possible's death at the end of 2004. As Punk News points out, the album is not only the band's first full-length release in over a decade, but it's also the band's first full-length without original band member Ezra Kire as well as its first full-length release on Fat Wreck Chords.

In a statement Scott "Stza Crack" Sturgeon made on the Fat Wreck Chords website about the new album, he explained, "I have been working on the songs for this album since I wrapped up production on the third Star F*cking Hipsters record in 2011. My only concern (with releasing) a new Leftover Crack LP was that it had to be as good as our first two full-length efforts. I wasn't going to put a new record together until I felt like that standard was met." He goes on to explain that the band had been working on many of the new album's tracks for years until the whole thing finally came together this past Spring.

Upon first listen, it's immediately evident that a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into the latest album--it's far from a repeat of the band's earlier efforts and boasts a somewhat more hardcore thrashy sound throughout. "Bedbugs & Beyond" is a good example of the hardcore influence heard throughout the new album; listen to it below.

Billboard premiered the album last week, and you can stream the entire 13-track LP there.

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