The sounds FEDERATION X makes are unmistakably American, with deep roots in the dirtrock, power violence and country music tradition of its native semi-rural Washington state. This Federation X record, the band's fourth in five years, is the further realization of their intelligent, heavy sound. This un-ironic approach means Fed X tunes can get lodged in your head with a pop adhesiveness that belies their rough-and-ready execution, and have a sort of genuine-ness for which too many performers of this here damned generation are (quite ironically) unwilling to risk their shrink-wrapped posturings.