I wouldn't recommend this album to anyone who wasn't a huge fan of ALL or the Descendents. It's interesting in context, and a few of the songs are great, but overall I'm just not into Tony's vocals. The tracks helmed by Reynolds and Alvarez are streets ahead.
I hated this on the first listen, which bummed me out because I'm a huge fan of KJ's previous work. But after a few more listens I really started to get into it. Not their best by any means, but a fun brief departure.
At this point I've heard the entire ALL discography, and Percolator is by far the most experimental. You get more of those weird Eggerton compositions, more instrumental sections in general, and less generic song structures. It's a fun time, but I wouldn't recommend this as a starting point.
It's hard for me to imagine disliking anything John K Samson releases, and Winter Wheat certainly doesn't disappoint. Personally I might rank Provincial a stronger album, but just by a hair. Worth buying for sure.
I jumped into Low Teens without really knowing what I was getting into, having never really heard ETID before. I knew it was hardcore, but I wasn't expecting so much nuance and genre-shifting. This is a massively entertaining album that never gets stale.