The final Black Flag album is sadly a rather disappointing swan song, particularly for coming at the conclusion of such a brief but inspired career. It's interesting to see the band take a different approach to songwriting here, mixing the spoken word style of 'Family Man' with the heavy metal of 'Loose Nut' to some extent, but the end result doesn't really work, and the longer pieces end up a lot more tedious than anything from 'My War.' Even the production quality has slipped since the previous album, leaving this sounding raw, echoey and under-produced -and not even in the good way. This album lacks the energy and basic enjoyment of earlier releases, ...  Read the complete review