Five Lessons Learned, the Swingin’ Utters’ second album for Fat Wreck Chords, builds on the breakthrough of their first, A Juvenile Product of the Working Class. They don’t depart from their hard-hitting retro-punk formula at all — there’s nothing here that couldn’t have been recorded in 1978 or 1980 — but their sense of humor is sharpening, as are their hooks. There are a couple of weak cuts, but they speed by so fast you won’t even notice them, and that makes this the group’s best record to date. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine