Smoko at the Pet Food Factory

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Smoko at the Pet Food Factory
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Studio album by
Released19 August 2011 (Australia)
Recorded Colorado, USA
Genre Pop punk
Punk rock
Skate punk
Melodic hardcore
Length26:40
Label Shock Records, Fat Wreck Chords
Producer Bill Stevenson
Frenzal Rhomb chronology
Forever Malcolm Young
(2006)
Smoko at the Pet Food Factory
(2011)
We Lived Like Kings (We Did Anything We Wanted)
(2016)

Smoko at the Pet Food Factory is the eighth studio album by Australian punk band Frenzal Rhomb. It was recorded in Colorado, USA, with Bill Stevenson as producer and was released in Australia on Shock Records on 19 August 2011

Contents

The album's name is a double reference: in Australia, a smoko is a popular term for a short, informal cigarette break and Bill Stevenson's Blasting Room studio where the album was recorded is located next to a pet food processing factory the smell of which permeates the surrounding area.

It was nominated at the ARIA Music Awards of 2012 for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album, but lost to DZ Deathrays for Bloodstreams.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Bird Attack"1:15
2."Mummy Doesn't Know You're a Nazi"1:23
3."5000 Cigarettes"1:40
4."Cockroach Light Switch"1:26
5."Knuckleheads"2:18
6."Just Because It's Soap Doesn't Mean It's Clean"1:37
7."My Dearest Friend"0:54
8."Back to the Suburbs"2:10
9."Edward Sausage Fangs"2:32
10."Alvarez"1:48
11."Hungry Jacks Carpark"1:48
12."Snouts in the Trough"1:28
13."Dead Celebrity"1:53
14."Metrognome"1:22
15."When My Baby Smiles at Me I Go to Rehab"1:04
16."The Rude Tourist"2:11

Charts

Chart (2011)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [1] 14

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