Screeching Weasel - Baby Fat Act 1 (2015)

The release is called Baby Fat Act 1, and as its title suggests it's the first part of a lengthy series. As detailed on Indiegogo, where the project raised an impressive $40,000 US, the album has been in the works since 2011, and is a two-part rock opera.

"It's not a rock opera in the traditional sense — the ones done by bands in the 70s seem to me to be concept records — but an actual opera with a linear narrative, featuring different singers portraying different characters," the band's Ben Weasel writes. "Let's face it — rock in general and punk in particular has more rules than the Taliban, and they always lead to boring music. If we brought this idea to the average label they'd try to get us to make a traditional record."