"If you look at the band photo on Make Me Sick's insert, you'll see people from pretty much all the best and most popular hardcore punk bands in Pittsburgh for the past few years.

These people know how to make great hardcore punk, and Make Me Sick is White Stains doing just that.

While White Stains isn't as as blistering as Loose Nukes or as brutally intense as Blood Pressure, that's only because they've taken a different tack here, channeling the snotty, punky hardcore of bands like the Circle Jerks, Sick Pleasure, and Chronic Sick.

Of those bands, Circle Jerks is the most apt comparison given how White Stains' snottiness comes along with so much catchiness and rhythmic density.

And like Group Sex, the drum parts are almost catchier than the riffs here_ I need to be careful listening to this while driving because these songs might make steering seem less important than air drumming" (Daniel Lupton)