Divide and Exit

The Grantham, England, duo Sleaford Mods newest album, Divide and Exit, is about as punk as punk gets in 2014: Singer Jason Williamson speed-talks bile while Andrew Fearn provides coarse backing tracks, which barely get beyond cheap plastic keyboard presets.

It took Sleaford Mods nearly eight years to make their breakthrough album, but what a breakthrough: Divide and Exit doesn't just build on the momentum Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn began with 2013's Austerity Dogs, it kicks down the door and announces Sleaford Mods as one of the most truly punk outfits of the 2010s.

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