“Mobilize” is the newest album from Anti-Flag, and this time it is not of Fat but it is on the band’s own label, guess how it is called, A-F Records.The albums is actually a double CD package: the first cd is the Anti Flag new album, with a bunch of new songs plus some live tracks recorded during some shows. The second cd is sampler of their record label, and it features 21 songs from pretty much any release A-F ever put out.

Let’s start from the first cd: Anti Flag brings us 8 new tracks, even if some of them were already know, as “911 For Peace”, downloadble from their site after the tragedies of 9/11, or “Mumia’s Song”, which was featured on some compilation I don’t remember. Some new songs that are very good are “We Want to be Free” and “Right to Choose” and “We Don’t Need It”, that will soon become anthems for the band’s live shows. Instead, among the live tracks, it is wasy to recognize the band’s most famous songs, from “Tearing Everyone Down” to “A New Kind Of Army”, “Underground Network”, “Die For the Governement”, “Bring Out Your Dead” and the sarcastic yet really happened story of “Spaz’s House Destruction Party”, featuring Spaz himself on vocals. The second cd is the A-F Records sampler: among all of the bands signed to this label, the most interesting are surely Pipedown, The Methadones ( featuring ex members of Screeching Weasel), The Code and Whatever It Takes, some good bands that are not famous at all but deserve to become.

In the end, I bet that if you’re a fan of Anti Flag you already own this, while I give the advice to pick this up to anyone who heard the band on some compilations and want to know more about these four punks from Pittsburgh, or to the ones who want to know more about the A-F Records, but remember that this package has 2 c, one with 16 songs and the other with 21 songs at the price of one album only, it’s a deal.|carlo@staff.truepunk.com