What a Time to Be Alive

Editors’ Notes After almost three decades in action, the level of energy Superchunk maintains here initially seems preternatural. But once you realize the songs were written in a flurry of angry, cathartic creativity right after the 2016 presidential election, the level of passionate punk-pop fury on display is a little more explicable. And when Mac and the gang sink their teeth into deceptively buoyant-sounding songs like the title track or "I Got Cut," with explosive guitars and earworm hooks in abundance, their outrage and artistry collide with gutsy glory.