The Humpers’ second Epitaph album, Plastique Valentine, isn’t markedly different from either Journey to the Center of Your Wallet of Postively Sick on 4th Street, but it does deliver a gritty, post-Stooges garage-guitar grind. Though the songwriting is a bit limited — it’s hard to find a hook anywhere on the record — its gut-wrenching, visceral rush is harder and more punk than most of the Humpers punk-revivalist conemporaries. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine