The press release says these lovable suburban-Boston losers named themselves after the smooth, ticket-scalping character from the '80s coming-of-age comedy "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," and you get the sense that they did it out of respect rather than irony.

Not that it's a bad thing. Matter of fact, this album's 30-odd-minutes worth of guitar-driven pop-punk gems about muscle cars, getting dumped and unrequited love are refreshing for their lack of irony. "You've got the moves, and the booze, and the booty," teenage vocalist Noelle LeBlanc sings in "At the Mall," right after an overblown guitar solo that would make C.C. DeVille blush. "I think you're cool, and I really think so."

"From the Attic" is driven by LeBlanc's voice--which is somewhere between Juliana Hatfield and The Breeders' Kim Deal--and guitarist Dave Pino's assortment of tasty riffs that hearken to Cheap Trick, The Ramones and even The Cars.

Pino wrote the songs on "From the Attic" in 1996 and 1997, when he was 18 years old and nursing a broken heart, but LeBlanc--who no doubt still has an intimate understanding of teenage angst--delivers them as if they're her own. It's an unlikely match, but the result is the perfect soundtrack for hanging out at the convenience store parking lot.