In 1980 what appeared to be a formulaic, phoning-it-in album of contemporary radio punk and new wave music done in the style of Alvin in the Chipmunks was released, named Chipmunk Punk. The album garnered no particular critical or commercial success, and was quickly forgotten as merely one in a long line of kitchy, vaguely topical music under the Alvin and the Chipmunks brand. It turns out that it was instead a hidden monument of sludge rock.