Living In Darkness - Agent Orange

The debut album from California’s Agent Orange influenced a whole generation (and some more) of local punk rockers, who adapted the angry disillusion of their seventies forebears into something more appropriate for Generation X. Widening its own influences to absorb contemporary heavy metal and surf music into its punk base, ‘Living in Darkness’ is a short, sharp recording that proved to be the band’s best, or at least most recognised. Reviews of this album tend to associate it with skateboarding, the same way some Pink Floyd fans insist the music be used as a soundtrack to smoking the ol’ crazy gravy granules, but having never been a sk8ur (or however it’s ...