The Furious Hours
The Downstrokes
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Eleven songs of garage punk mayhem driving down the National Highway. Loud and catchy, the Downstrokes
Gentlemen, if your aim was to produce a definitive punk n' roll album for the new age, then you Fucking Nailed it.
--Accidental Music Reviewer
The Furious Hours
The band's fourth album features their signature mix of punk rock aggression with garage rock stylings and smart lyrics. The record opens with the anthemic “Let's Make Some Noise,” and the band then mixes it up for ten more noisey tracks of rock n roll mayhem. The Downstrokes cover the gamut from workplace exhaustion (the metaphoric ”Frequent Flyer") to their favorite bartender ("The Bargirl is a Punk), from lost love ("No More Nights" and “Insomniac") to social stressors ("Everybody Hates a Parade"); from nostalgia ("Coney Island High) to a celebration of PMA (The country inflected "Brighter Times"). With The Furious Hours The Downstrokes continue to test the boundaries of punk rock.
“[The Downstrokes'] 1978-1981 pure-punk needn’t fit with prevailing scenes. They just have a blast, blasting-away old-style, on thickly smashing second wave U.K. (SLF/Angelic Upstarts to The Straps/Only Alternative) and North American (D.O.A./Toxic Reasons/early Red Rockers) ramalama.” - Jack Rabid
— The Big Takeover Magazine