The ageless MDC have a new album out, and it’s full of activist commentary and snide humor. Nothing much has changed since the ‘80s, when they released Millions of Dead Cops and More Dead Cops, except that the new target of their anger is Bush instead of Reagan, and they actually can really play their instruments. Don’t get me wrong, there are some ‘80s-era classics — “John Wayne Was a Nazi” remains one of my all-time favorite punk rock tunes — but after a while, those tracks just blend together, indistinguishable from one another. The musical proficiency on Magnus Dominus Corpus leads me to believe that, unlike a lot of punk bands that just won’t let it go, MDC are on top of their game. This album is worth owning for the final and 18th track alone, “Ballad of GW.”

(Sudden Death Records, Cascades PO Box 43001, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H0 Canada)