“in case you don’t find it irresistible / neatly, babe â€" I’ll so long,†Viagra Boys frontman Sebastian Murphy scoffs in his raspy drawl on ‘Ain’t quality’, the outlet tune of their second album ‘Welfare Jazz’. because their beginnings in 2015, the Stockholm 5-piece had been all about soiled, jazz-infused submit-punk and reckless onstage antics which have viewed them develop into shit-kicking bad lads the put up-punk world.
As a good deal as it is their proper kind, it’s now not the only element going for them. in place of enjoying up to their elegantly wasted personas, ‘Welfare Jazz’ sees them sidestep any so-known as 2nd album droop. There’s no large reinvention of sound â€" except for some country-ish sounds, typified by using the Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn-vogue call-and-answer ‘in spite of Ourselves’, a punk hoedown with Amyl and the Sniffers‘ Amy Taylor â€" however a definite reinvention of approach.
If 2018 debut ‘highway Worms’ become your party-loving, gobby little brother, ‘Welfare Jazz’ is the smartly-to-do, nation-loving cousin who’s able to buckle up and not appear back. Crap relationships and the numbness of inebriation are all in the rearview reflect.
As with the band’s prior offerings, satire’s the word right here. Take the tumbling smash-up confessional ‘Toad’; borderline brutal in its approach, the music finds Murphy’s initial husky compliments to his quickly-to-be ex absolutely eroded by using his wingmen’s unrelenting affirmations that “You don’t want no girlâ€, as Viagra Boys tease dance enchantment with jaded sax screeches and psych-funk synths.
despite the small slither of hope coursing through each music from the upbeat country twangs, ‘Creatures’ reaches itself right down into the pits of disaster. The gloomy photographs painted of an underworld where “we don’t want sleep†offers a stark contrast to the song’s glittering synths. choice dancefloor filler ‘girls & Boys’ is a self-conscious throwback to their party days with some Nick Cave / The party-vogue burst of dissonance thrown in, whereas ‘I consider Alive’ is the motivational wake-up tune all of us want. “Jesus Christ, I consider alive!,†Murphy publicizes on this ode to sobriety, which doubles as a paean to positivity.
In traversing sobriety, the conclusion of relationships, “being an asshole†â€" as Murphy put it in a contemporary observation â€" and, surprisingly, a love of dogs (see spoken-observe oddities ‘This ancient Dog’ and ‘most advantageous In demonstrate II’ and absurdist punk rock stomper ‘Secret dogs Agent’), Viagra Boys have kicked off 2021 as they reputedly mean to go on: by way of charging headfirst in the madness of it all. in reality, what else is there to do?
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