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"married life in prison is a lottery / conditions are Dickensian at best / CELEBRATE ANIMALS! CELEBRATE ANIMALS! / standing in the corner like your girlfriend’s dead / let’s pretend your wallet chain is functuional!"
Yes, it’s another one of my one-man campaigns on behalf of a great band who haven’t got nearly the amount of press coverage / radio play they deserve:
Today it’s Mclusky, who (with the possible exceptions of Gorkys and SFA) are the best band to emerge from Wales since, well, ever. I bought their new album 'Mclusky Do Dallas' last week and it’s gone straight to the top of my list of favourite records of the year so far.
The manic energy and scatter-shot lyrics of early iDLEWiLD, the confrontational attitude and violent extremity of Big Black, the insane pace and mosh-able melodies of Nirvana’s Territorial Pissings, the funniest/cleverest lyrics (and the most swearing) this side of hip-hop.. and all with top production from Steve Albini.
Except that they don’t really sound like any of those things, because, well .. they just sound like one of those bands who have created exactly the kind of noise they want to make all on their own, without resort to any ‘influences’, and are all the better for it (in the same way that, say, The Fall, Pavement, Sleater Kinney and Husker Du don’t just sound like their influences).
song titles include:
Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
The World Loves Us and is Our Bitch
To Hell With Good Intentions
Clique Application Form
No New Wave, No Fun
Alan is a Cowboy Killer
And their previous album, which I don’t own, must get respect for being called:
‘My Pain and Sadness is More Sad and Painful Than Yours’
I implore anyone who’s ever had an affinity with the noise made by white people hollering and hitting guitars to go out and get this right now .. it’s an absolute fucking blast, a blueprint for what a great underground rock record should sound like and the most immediately enjoyable record I’ve heard in ages… (or you could get their "To Hell With Good Intentions" EP, which will cost you but £2.50 for 4 songs and let you know exactly where they’re at).
"Fuck this band / they swear too much / it’s an obvious ploy / and irresponsible / but if they split up / you’re responsible." |
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