Gorilla Biscuits’ debut album, following an EP that fit seven songs on a 7” single, was one of the more polished efforts to come out of the New York hardcore scene; you can hear its influence clearly on pop-punk acts like Green Day and Blink 182. Vocalist Anthony “Civ” Civorelli was a raw-throated shouter like a kid throwing a tantrum, but he could moderate when a witty aside was called for. Guitarists Walter Schreifels (who’d go on to form Quicksand) and Alex Brown wrote soaring guitar lines that were later echoed in the music of Fugazi and a thousand other emo bands. There was something uptempo and optimistic about Gorilla Biscuits that wasn’t present in their peers’ work; songs like “Forgotten” and the title track were hardcore that could get college radio play, and they nodded to punk history with a cover of the Buzzcocks’ “Sitting ’Round at Home.”