There's no shortage of black-and-white thinking in punk rock - but let's face it: Life is a way more complicated shade of gray. It's in this gray area that Polar Bear Club have always worked best - and on their third full-length and second for Bridge Nine, Clash Battle Guilt Pride, the upstate New York quintet deliver an album that's punk in spirit but universal in appeal. Recorded with producer Brian McTernan (Hot Water Music, Circa Survive) at his Salad Days studio in Baltimore, Clash Battle Guilt Pride finds Polar Bear Club looking back on their past few years of life as a band through the bigger lens of the human experience.