On their 2015 sophomore LP, Providence punks Downtown Boys throttled authority with a saxophone by their side. The album was called Full Communism, and it primarily spoke to working-class America; not the working-class America made up primarily of white people in rural parts of the country, the faction that Donald Trump appealed to so heavily in 2016. Rather, Downtown Boys appealed to an America made up of workers of all colors and creeds: people who work day in and day out, who will never own a home, who will pay rent to a landlord until they die. People who work in factories. People who work in offices. People who clean the offices after everyone else has gone home. People with high insurance deductibles and pre-existing conditions. People who live and work in this country and are still branded as “illegal.” Downtown Boys sang about white hegemony and the capitalist condition on Full Communism with a fury so profound, so unrehearsed, that the album felt immediate and empowering. It is a gut punch with a message that keeps on giving 2017.