Kevin Bronson on September 4th, 2012

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When does an identity crisis become an existential crisis? Somewhere in the two thrashing minutes of the Henry Clay People’s “The Fakers,” that’s where. “Our mothers and fathers gave us faces no one remembers,” Joey Siara rages in the song, from the L.A. punk-rock quartet’s equally raging new album “Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives.” Matt Wyatt’s house-party video casts a who’s-who of locals for a couple of minutes of Who’s Who? Point is, the Henry Clay People could be anybody – that’s the beauty of it. And, if you think too hard about it, the depressing part too. Might as well rage on.

||| Live: The Henry Clay People play Thursday at Fingerprints in Long Beach (7 p.m.) and Oct. 6 at the Eagle Rock Music Festival.