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Sludgeworth — the Chicago punk band who came of age alongside Naked Raygun, Steve Albini, and Ministry in the city's legendary 1980s underground scene — are returning with their first new album in 35 years. Three and a half decades after their debut LP What's This? rattled punk kids everywhere, the veteran outfit is coming out of dormancy, ready for the Second Time Around. Today they share their new video "Can't Change Yesterday".

Out June 19 on Red Scare, Second Time Around is full of the band’s tried-and-true hooks and daggers like the tongue-in-cheek anthem “Can’t Change Yesterday” and the friendship anchor “Hold Steady,” a song about “allowing difficult emotions to simply pass without clinging to them,” reveals singer Dan Schafer. “A painful yesterday doesn’t have to define today. We’re always allowed to begin again.”

The 12 tracks – which reunite McQuaid and Schafer with guitarists Dave McLean and Adam White alongside new bassist Simon Lamb (Violets and The Methadones) — feel like a natural progression for the beloved pop punk band that ultimately disbanded in 1993, but not before making a sincere impression on fans and future generations of music makers. Not the least of which is McQuaid’s son Max who’s behind the kit in up-and-comers Feral Tact and also added instrumentation to Second Time Around.