Pop album review: The Bronx returns to its original sound in 'IV'

As its title implies, "IV" is the fourth studio album from this long-running Los Angeles punk band. But that total comes with an asterisk: Following "III" in 2008, the Bronx effected an unlikely transition and released two records — both excellent — as Mariachi El Bronx, an honest-to- Dios mariachi outfit complete with brass and guitarrón . Now the group has shed the charro suits and returned to its original sound with 12 serrated hard-core jams about wasted youth and suicide. "We're no...

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