{"product_id":"fidlar","title":"Fidlar","description":"\u003cp\u003eFIDLAR is the self-titled debut studio album by Los Angeles punk quartet FIDLAR — vocalist and guitarist Zac Carper, guitarist Elvis Kuehn, bassist Brandon Schwartzel, and drummer Max Kuehn — released January 22, 2013 on Mom + Pop and Burger Records in the US, Wichita Recordings in the UK, and Dine Alone Records in Canada. The band's name is an acronym for \"Fuck It Dog, Life's A Risk,\" a slang phrase from skateboarding culture, and the album's fourteen tracks deliver precisely on that promise: a beer-soaked, self-produced blast of scuzzy garage-punk about cheap beer, drug use, skateboarding, and the studied art of not giving a damn. Two of the Kuehn brothers are sons of T.S.O.L. keyboardist Greg Kuehn, and that Southern California punk lineage is audible throughout — the album was one of the most anticipated debuts of 2013, praised by Stereogum and Time ahead of its release, and arrived with three re-recorded tracks from the band's earlier DIYDUI EP, including \"Wake Bake Skate\" and \"Max Can't Surf,\" given additional guitars and more aggressive vocals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusically, the album sits at a rowdy intersection of the Ramones, Black Flag, Wavves, and early Best Coast — all short, fast, lyrically blunt songs delivered with deliberate slacker aggression and a production aesthetic that glories in its own imperfection. Beats Per Minute noted that the opening track \"Cheap Beer\" immediately signals a more bleary-eyed and confrontational register than anything on the EPs — \"I! Drink! Cheap! Beer! So! What! Fuck! YOU!\" — while Drowned in Sound later observed that beneath the surface-level party-punk there ran \"an air of self-destruction that permeated every track,\" making the album \"more worrying than average skate-punk partying.\" Punktastic described the band's sound as landing \"somewhere in the middle of Trash Talk, Gnarwolves, Black Flag and the Ramones,\" and despite the album's repetitive thematic preoccupations, praised its ability to sustain energy and variety across all fourteen tracks. The album closes with \"Cocaine,\" which contains a hidden track, \"Sex,\" recycled from the band's early material.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - Indie Excl. Frosted Silver Vinyl","offer_id":53625548112186,"sku":"38479","price":39.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-06-18_at_3.16.08_PM.jpeg?v=1781810364","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/fidlar","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}