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Album Of The Week: Krimewatch Krimewatch

10:49 AM EDT on April 17, 2018

How long does an album have to be to qualify as an album? The self-titled debut from the New York punk band Krimewatch is 12 minutes long. I can name plenty of EPs that are longer than that. I can name plenty of songs that are longer than that -- songs from punk bands, even. Krimewatch has nine songs, and four of them originally showed up on other records. With all that in mind, Krimewatch should barely register. It should be slight and discardable, one more Bandcamp punk release in a sea of them. Instead, Krimewatch sounds colossal. With a record like this, what matters isn't how long the album is, or how many songs are on it. It's how much fury and intensity you can get across. Krimewatch get a whole fucking lot of it across.