Hold on to your hats. Anything could happen with this band. The follow-up to debut album Street Worms more than two years ago, the Swedish post-punk mischief makers fronted by Sebastian Murphy return with their brand of satirically twisted dark humour and stop-start energy. With a pair of bongos, squared-off synths, and a squonky, twisted saxophone, noisy guitar and a few ‘Oi’s, their songs do indeed deftly lay waste to society's normalisation of toxic masculinity, racism, misogyny, classism, and self-obsession.With a mix of Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, IDLES and Alabama 3, there's an entertaining take on Americana and masculinity with the John Prine tribute cover In Spite of Ourselves featuring guest vocals from Amy Taylor from Amyl and the Sniffers, postpunk, clanking, stomping opener Ain't Nice, smooth electronica on Creatures, Bad Seeds-style Toad, A dash of Eels on I Feel Alive, and a load of skits and poems. A lot of, at times, angry, laugh-out-load disturbing and also brilliantly silly fun. Out on YEAR0001. More about the Viagra Boys here.
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