Kevin Bronson on October 31st, 2013

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The new album from O.C. four-piece Audacity is rather ironically titled. “Butter Knife,” the quartet is calling it, and it’s easy to counter with the statement that the album (out this week via Suicide Squeeze) is sharper than that. Unless we’re miscounting, “Butter Knife” is Audacity’s third full-length since last July, this one more fully realized, probably owing to the production work of Rob Barbato (Darker My Love). Audacity still holds its garage-rock, power-pop and pop-punk influences closely, from the Stooges through Weezer, and they know how to have a good time with them. That goes for director Steven Andrew Garcia’s video for “Hole in the Sky” too, as the band is superimposed on vintage magazine advertisements.

||| Live: Audacity plays the Continental Room in Fullerton on Sunday.

||| Previously: “Couldn’t Hold a Candle,” “Finders Keepers”