10 Essential Rock Albums Of The 2010s

For a long time FIDLAR had a reputation as possibly the hardest partying band going in the punk scene. On the surface, every single track on their self-titled debut album is a good-time, sing along anthem celebrating the joys of drinking beer, smoking weed and partying. From opener Cheap Beer's chanting chorus (I drink cheap beer, so what? F*** you!) to closing track Cocaine - whose entire chorus consists of little more than the title. But that's only on the surface.

Underneath the noisy, catchy riffs and vocal chord shredding screams, are often poignant, sometimes downright depressing, lyrics about addiction, mental illness, loneliness and feeling utterly purposeless in life. You only have to do a bit of cursory reading into lead singer Zac Carper's life to realise that this comes from personal experience, that the party should have stopped a long time ago, but sometimes you don't have control over the matter.

FIDLAR proved with this album that you can have it both ways. You can write catchy, infectious party anthems, but they can also have a far more substantial meaning to them as well. That being said, Max Can't Surf is still just big stupid fun.