Mr. Bronson would be proud. Oozing with raucous charm, out step The Vigilantes.

Right off the screen of some forty-year-old classic black and white teen rebel flick!

Supersonic is a good way to describe the burgeoning power chords as they ring through loud and clear, paving the way, not so smoothly I might add, for the gang choruses that bellow forth in a pleasantly menacing back up role.

Thumbing through the album lyrics-and who doesn't, you won't have a clue otherwise-the title suggests that in spite of the bleak future many of us are forced to endure everyday, there is a future nonetheless.

For The Vigilantes, the city remains the start up point... to wherever it is those lights are leading to. But I'll say one thing, if Cambridge, Massachusetts looks as bad as what I see on the back cover, Harvard University's admissions office has some set of balls!

I'll leave it at that.

Anyway the Northeastern trio's got the right attitude and-"Too Old to Work, Too Young to Die," not even their song, but they do a tear it up job on it!

"In His Eyes," is another stand out with some menacing guitar work and melodic yet haunting backing vocals which chime in irregularly-in fact the whole disc possesses these same demons-be-driven qualities, though not every song is as memorable!

The Vigilantes are a from the ground up work in progress and they fall somewhere between the melody-driven rock and roll throwback style of Social Distortion and total annihilation properties of early Misfits.

Released by GMM Records

Review By Vinnie Apicella