Seraphina Lotkhamnga on November 15th, 2012

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If you plan on hosting a nice dinner with some quiet music to entertain your guests for the rest of your civil evening, L.A.’s Criminal Hygiene is not your band. If the sound of broken bottles at the beginning of tunes like “Blak Water” don’t tell you what’s up, then maybe the brash vocals, reverb-drenched guitars and crashing cymbals will give you the idea. James P. Watson, Michael Fiore and Sean Erickson are the guys who play the party you think you can throw and get away with while your parents are out of town. (That is, until you’re cleaning up shattered vases, torn couch cushions and stale beer in red Solo cups the morning Mom and Pops return.) With pop melodies and scuzzy bass lines in songs that clock in at just two minutes each on their forthcoming debut LP “CRMNL HYGNE” (out Jan. 15 via Small Smile Records), Criminal Hygiene are well on their way to playing their raucous anthems for the rowdiest of kids (young and old). File next to FIDLAR, and don’t be surprised if they end up in your Burger Records collection someday.

||| Download: “Blak Water”

||| Live: Criminal Hygiene plays Nov. 20 at Redwood Bar.