PUBLIC OPINION - Painted On Smile LP Crust In the past

In the past

Birger Olsen

The results range from instrumental tracks awaking memories of 1970s crime thriller soundtracks to more Sudanese-rooted tracks

and after a few years of near-obsessive woodshedding

PUBLIC OPINION - Painted On Smile LP Crust In the pastCONVR86 is Painted on Smile, the debut LP from Denver's Public Opinion. One part ultra catchy punk, one part exorcism, its an album that reckons with self loathing and self doubt so thoroughly that by the end of it, maybe things dont seem as cursed after all. Painted On Smile somehow draws together the melodicism of early aughts rock, the intensity of hardcore, and the spiky swagger of primordial punk into a surprisingly cohesive blend. Lyrically, the