They’ve been pacing around with singles and EPs for several years, but this debut by the Dublin post-punks (pronounced male) is powerful, funny, dark, feminist, funny and dirty, filled with fabulous thumps, bangs, crashes, guitar clangs and killer lyrics. Vocalist Róisín Nic Ghearailt is a striking, repetitive speaker-singer, and cuts to the quick straightaway in opener Asking For It, a hard-hitting number about rape culture: “My whole life won’t be defined by you.” The album is as much stands out with its jittery, thunderous, buzzsaw, angular guitar edges, synth sounds and dynamics, such as on No One Ever Talks To Us. There’s plenty of caustic humour abound amid the anger, such as the clever final twist on Nice Guys. Other standouts include Bisexual Anxiety, and the ironic Femme (“I should have cut my hair off when I knew I was queer / It would have made it easier on everyone here”), as well as the lustfully messy Period Sex. Clever, taking no prisoners, it’s full breath of fresh air. Out on Tulle Collective.
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