San Francisco's Stroke 9 took a worrying three years to follow up its major-label debut, Nasty Little Thoughts. But the band sounds thoroughly unaffected on the follow-up. Rip It Off is bristling with delirious rock riffs, whopping hooks, and the same tongue-in-cheek attitude that propelled their last hit, "Little Black Backpack," onto the modern-rock charts.
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