Talk to Action: Singles and Unreleased 2008-2013

by The Shirks

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1.	Dangerous 01:46	buy track
2.	Young and Filthy 02:10	buy track
3.	Get Out 02:17	buy track
4.	DC is Doomed 01:11	buy track
5.	Long Time 02:15	buy track
6.	China 01:58	buy track
7.	Disease 02:08	buy track
8.	Negative Reaction 00:58	buy track
9.	No Way Street 02:33	buy track
10.	Do You Love The Nazis 02:07	buy track
11.	Cry Cry Cry 02:02	buy track
12.	On Time 02:29	buy track
13.	Prostitution Summer 02:58	buy track
14.	Action Men 02:14	buy track
15.	Gimme Less 02:00	buy track
16.	Chinese Heels 01:43	buy track
17.	Talk To Action 01:26	buy track
18.	Highway Street 01:15	buy track
19.	Dr. Wolf 02:14	buy track
20.	13th Street Meats 00:27	buy track

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Hailing from Washington, DC, there is obviously a lengthy punk rock history that The Shirks are adding to, and in some respects there is no difference to what the Dischord bands were doing back in the early days i.e. sticking two fingers up to those wanting to tie them down to what's being done now...Such is their disregard for following 'normal' behaviour i.e. in this 'modern age' the band seem to actively eschew the more accepted ways of getting their name out there by deliberately not having much of a presence on the internet. Back to the music though, The Shirks manage to take that early primitive Dischord sound and regress it a few stages, to produce a really scuzzed up punk rock approach that makes bands such as the Teen Idles and S.O.A. sound positively overproduced.

[For a] meaningful comparison to The Shirks then maybe I'd start by saying they're like a cross between The New Bomb Turks, Space Cookie and The Night Birds...

- punknews.org

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released June 16, 2023

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