Seraphina Lotkhamnga on September 17th, 2012

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Japanther may be the hardest-working punks to come out of Brooklyn. Matt Reilly and Ian Vanek are rowdy, loud and definitely too absurd for your parents. No matter where Japanther goes, mosh pits ensue, but it doesn’t mean that Reilly and Vanek are just messing around. Counting their collection of 7-inches, EPs and albums (and excluding any compilations), the duo’s got 21 releases under their belt, with their  latest record “Beets, Limes and Rice” out now on Recess Records. Those lyrics hidden in all that speedy drumming and shouting don’t just pose as the spirit of punk. They go past the carelessness of this generation and dive deep into cathartic tunes like “First of All” (with the first lyric of the album being “First of all / f–k you). Produced by Michael Blum in L.A., the album is as sun-kissed as 2010’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll Ice Cream;” you’d never know that the album was dedicated to their late friend Beau Velasco (The Death Set) and is about embracing “a young person in the world that’s not afraid to die and not afraid to live.”

||| Download: “Porcupine”

||| Watch: Their stop motion animation for “Come Back Home” by Amber B. Dianda after the jump.

||| Live: Japanther plays Tuesday at Bootleg Bar with Dirt Bird, Dignitary Loss and Spirit Vine.