Thank You (For Letting Us Be Ourselves)

Thank You (For Letting Us Be Ourselves) is a work on which HARDCORE SUPERSTAR clashed punk speed and glam-rock flamboyance. Rough guitar and bold choruses push the songs out provocatively. It is a momentum-filled record representative of the band’s early period. On “That's My Life,” “Shame” and “Riding with the King,” the contrast of not-too-tidy playing and instantly hummable melody feels good. Songs like “Wimpy Sister,” “Dear Old Fame” and “Smoke 'Em” breathe the band’s full playing too. Keeping roughness as an appeal, they build hooks that resound big live. It is a record on which the band’s signature — the fusion of punk and glam — is fully displayed.