mclusky: The World Is Nonetheless Right here And So Are We
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mclusky unleash their first new album in 20 years with the reassuringly explosive, The World Is Nonetheless Right here And So Are We. Andy Brown critiques the report for Louder Than Warfare.
“Shout out the top on the prime of your lungs/ ‘cos who’s obtained time to be fucking round?” screams Andrew ‘Falco’ Falkous over the juddering noise rock of Chekhov’s Weapons. It’s honest to say that mclusky’s new album – their first in 20 years – most actually doesn’t fuck round. The World Is Nonetheless Right here And So Are We rattles off 13 songs in 33 minutes with a reassuring ferocity and sense of the absurd. The 4 monitor EP the band launched a few years in the past was the appetiser however this, my affected person buddies, is the principle fucking course.
Even at their darkest, mclusky have been all the time an act that tempered their fury with humour. This actually hasn’t deserted them right here with titles like Kafka-esque Novelist Franz Kafka and lead single, Method of the Exploding Dickhead. The Digger You Deep in all probability has my favorite bit of lovely nonsense as Falco sneers, “First I used to be a ache within the arse/ Then I used to be a crab/ In a story as previous as time.” Bob Dylan, eat yr coronary heart out. Terminally irritated and perpetually taking the piss: I didn’t realise fairly how a lot I wanted a brand new mclusky album till now.
The songs are all brutally environment friendly, with the longest providing being the stupendously self-indulgent 3 minute and 38 second, Hate The Polis. C’mon guys, you’re crusing dangerously near prog rock territory there. After all, I jest. Getting in – setting every little thing on fireplace whereas shouting non sequiturs at passers-by – and getting out, has all the time been one thing of a power for this Welsh post-hardcore trio. For the brand new LP, that trio consists of Falco, drummer Jack Egglestone and bassist Damien Sayell. Welcome again, you lovely bastards.
In comparison with the band’s stone-cold classics, the brand new album has extra in widespread with Mclusky Do Dallas than their seething swan track, The Distinction Between Me and You Is That I’m Not on Hearth. That’s to say, there’s nothing fairly as darkish as Assist Techniques to be discovered on the brand new report. Punchy songs delivered with an irreverent sense of enjoyable is the main target right here and – unsurprisingly for anybody that’s seen them dwell over the previous couple of years – they carry it off in type. Some bands kinda go off the boil after they depart it too lengthy however not mclusky.
The World Is Nonetheless Right here And So Are We isn’t your typical ‘first album in 20 years’ form of affair. It genuinely sounds prefer it may have come out someplace between the final two information. Indicators are encouraging from the beginning with Unpopular Components of a Pig confidently fulfilling all the mandatory ‘absolutely licensed banger’ standards. Fuzz heavy guitar thrash? Verify! Blistering depth? Verify! Falco doing a lot of totally different voices that modify between weird semi-spoken phrase and demonic screaming? Verify!
Present favourites embrace the unexpectedly euphoric alt-rock of Hate The Polis, the surrealist swing of The Competent Horse Thief and the Sayell sung, The Battle of Los Angelsea. That final one finds the bassist wishing he was a cigarette (we’ve all been there, I’m positive). Naturally, the instrumentation feels satisfyingly uncooked and quick all through. Falco and Co have been doing this shit for some time now so followers of noise rock and publish hardcore can relaxation assured that they’re in extraordinarily secure arms. I imply, simply take heed to the fuzzy tones and ferocious vocals on the bludgeoning Individuals Particular person. You possibly can virtually really feel that distortion in your bones. Pure sonic filth!
It obtained somewhat scary a couple of years in the past when Falco developed points along with his listening to; which makes the brand new mclusky LP really feel all of the extra triumphant. The band has left an simple imprint on the noise rock scene (simply have a take heed to Thank) however they aren’t fairly prepared for his or her elder statesmen/ pipe and slippers period simply but. Now, who’s up for a brand new Way forward for the Left album?
Falco has mentioned that the album is, “in all probability about being overwhelmed by the world”, which looks like a very apt theme in 2025. The World Is Nonetheless Right here And So Are We is an indignant, amused and far welcome return. They haven’t reinvented the wheel however generally dousing mentioned wheel in gasoline and driving it into battle whereas screaming about dickheads and horse thieves is all you actually need. And sure, their band continues to be higher than your band. Good to have ’em again!
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All phrases by Andy Brown. You possibly can go to his creator profile and browse extra of his critiques for Louder Than Warfare right here.
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