This East Bay outfit traces one of ska's least likely and most fruitful globe-trotting trips: Jamaica to London to California. The angsty-punk inflections of the Clash have clearly been sopped up by the squad, but a fiery, Rancid-like sound makes it clear the Rudiments were hardly training in vain.
Coming out of the East Bay Gilman PUNK scene, the Rudiments were commonly found on the same bill with bands like Rancid, AFI, and many others. The sound is influenced heavily from bands like Operation Ivy and The Clash.