State Of Alert is another of those punky, rock-disco crossovers from New York, complete with huge baggy grooves, spiked riffs and clipped, urgent sounding vocals and, despite a recent abundance of that type of thing, is well worth a listen.

However, despite the rabble-rousing title, militant cover-art and abundance of nervous energy, it's a bit of a political tease: it gets you all riled up, then doesn't actually go anywhere. Except maybe to the nearest dance floor to shake it like a loon. But you can't really criticise it for that; there's a time and a place for boring, preachy, political sermonizing, and there's a time and a place to forget everything and party hard. State Of Alert is very much a proponent of the latter.