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Back in the early 90s, when everyone else interested in underground rock music was singing its praises, I dismissed Superchunk as a third-rate Hüsker Dü wannabe after hearing a couple of songs, and never looked back. To be perfectly blunt, I was an idiot. After hearing Majesty Shredding, the North Carolina quartet’s first album in nearly a decade, I wonder what the hell I was thinking. This has everything I want in guitar-based rock: great riffs, distinctive vocals, clever lyrics, fizzy energy and, most of all, tons of strong melodies and sharp hooks. Hearing tunes as magnificent as “Rope Light,” “Crossed Wires,” “Slow Drip” and “Fractures in Plaster” is as revelatory to me now as was hearing obvious forebears like the Dü and the Buzzcocks two (or – gulp – three) decades ago.
I’m sure a chorus of snickering at my ignorance has already commenced. But I’ll be too busy rocking the heck out to Majesty Shredding to notice a million hipsters whispering “I told you so.”
