Photo by Nick Helderman

When it comes to central Pennsylvanians documenting the absurdities of cubicle culture, Jim Halpert ain't got shit on Allentown insurance claims adjuster/rock scribe/Pissed Jeans frontscreamer Matt Korvette. His band's spent nearly four long years since 2009's King of Jeans putting up with your bullshit, and the rage boils over in typical fashion on leadoff track "Bathroom Laughter". It isn't easy to ascertain, exactly, what has captured the animus of Mr. Korvette this time around, as the band rips through an impossibly scuzzy, breakneck punk romp that reimagines previous single "False Jesii Pt. 2" hopped up on gas station coffee.

But what becomes clear is the eternal truth of the same cruel joke that pervades so much of Pissed Jeans' work: no matter how real your suffering may feel at the time, whether it's losing your hair or whatever has the subject of "Bathroom Laughter" crying in the kitchen, the world at large simply does not give a shit about your personal, mundane issues. "You're in hallway screaming/ People try to get by, but you're screaming," Korvette wails before letting the loose the only natural response: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Another day at the office for Pissed Jeans.

[from Honeys; out in February 2013 via Sub Pop]