Four years ago Tartar Control blessed us with Holy Crap! and now they have blessed this Earth again with their second full-length, We Forgive You. This time the hardcore punk, Mormon missionary trio bestowed twenty-one new tracks upon their flock, all of which are absolutely hysterical. The songs and skits on We Forgive You are fairly longer than the majority of tracks on Holy Crap! and range in topics like how big God’s dick is, Pokémon, that feeling you get when you buy a new pair of socks, cowboys coexisting with dinosaurs in the wild west, making sure that everyone knows that they speak Spanish, and many more.

We Forgive You also fills some of the holes that were left in Holy Crap. One aspect that was absent from the band’s first album was that there weren’t any guitar solos. But don’t worry Bible buddies! Sean, Robert, and Robot have fixed this! Many of the songs on We Forgive You has Sean playing some absolutely wailing guitars solos in the a lot of the tracks. The song “My God’s Cock” where Robert screams very funny lyrics that claim, “My God’s cock is so fucking big/ You can’t even imagine it/ You can’t even comprehend it’s girth/ One of it’s sperm is the size of the Earth,” has Sean’s fingers flying up and down the fret board hitting excellent bends, pull-offs, and tremolo picking. During the melodic chorus of this song Sean describes God’s dick further with vivid imagery, “My God’s cock is the size of the universe/My God’s Cock has pubes like galaxies/My God’s cock rains lightning bolts/ My God’s cock made you and me.”

Usually when I would introduce Tartar Control to friends one of the first questions I would get is “Do have a song about brushing your teeth or tooth paste?” or a question along those lines. And my answer would be “No.” Holy Crap! does not have a song about oral hygiene. But now that We Forgive You has come out, this is no longer an issue. The band has included a song called “Brush Your Teeth” on this album. It seems like this track just missed being included on the band’s first release because you can see live performances of it online, some of which were recorded as early as 2013. “Brush Your Teeth” is a song where both Robert and Sean chastise those who lack good oral hygiene habits with lines like “I don’t know how you did it, but your mouth grew pubic hair” and they end the choruses by screaming “Brush your fucking teeth…MAN!” Even during the break down they ask “random” people when the last time they brushed their teeth was and the band responds with a resounding, “That’s not good enough!” “Brush Your Teeth” also contains one of the top highlights of this whole album. During the bridge of this song all of the instruments stop except for the drums and Sean and Robert chant “Oral B! Colgate! Aquafresh! Crest!” over and over again for the main build up.

One of the most brutally funny songs on We Forgive You is called “Step Daddy.” This track is about how a step father really just wanted a one night fling with a kid’s mom, but she got very attached to him and now the step father is making sure that the son knows that his new step father is having wild sex with his mom (to say the least). I don’t want to give too much away about this song, but Tartar Control added something very creative to it made it one of most hilarious songs they have written to date. What they did is during the two short breakdowns, Sean acts as the step dad in two voicemails sent to the son that seem nice at first, but then take much darker turn for the worse very quickly.

Tartar Control also took it upon themselves to write a better Pokémon theme song. And they succeeded. Of course, they go with their usual crunchy, hardcore sound. The song “Gotta Catch’em All” is an insanely fast track where Robert lists all of original Pokémon, but can you figure out which one they left out? This track is also a prime example of Sean’s newly added guitar soloing. This time Sean goes pretty wild with his whammy and dive-bombs a bit, but this solo takes an interesting turn where it goes to this distorted hypnotic-sounding part. It’s unexpected, but it works well with the whole song.

There is one thing to look out for on We Forgive You and that is if you wait or skip ahead through all of the white noise after the last song, which is called “Oh Happy Day,” there is a hidden/untitled song that doesn’t appear on the track listing. This hidden track is an acoustic song (a first for Tartar Control) where they sing about all of the very unfortunate situations the band experienced while touring. Without giving out the names of all of the people who have mistreated them, Sean and Robert list each situation and then brutally insult them. Believe me, when you hear what some of these awful people did to Tartar Control, you won’t feel bad at all. This is also a fair warning for those people who decide to screw over this band in the future. Hopefully stuff like this won’t happen to them again.

A really great aspect of Holy Crap is that the band had some very funny skits in between the songs. This time the band has made the skits longer. There is a very funny one where the band interrupts a tour of a dinosaur exhibit at a natural history museum where they claim that based on their “Bible math” they have concluded that the world is only 6,000 years old and because the Earth is so young, that would mean that cowboys rode dinosaurs during the days of wild west. In other skits Robot is extra sassy when he purposely messes up Sean and Robert’s prayer improv game and when he hits on a Shakey’s waitress by singing a very sexually explicit and auto-tuned R&B song.

Tartar Control have done it again with We Forgive You. They kept the comedy in the lyrics is hilarious, while keeping the musicianship is top notch. There is definitely a visible improvement over all compared to their first release. But the few tweaks that Sean, Robert, and Robot made here and there though, brought this new batch of songs to a new level. Whenever they decide to release newer material in the future, I hope it won’t take them as long as it did this time around.