From their recently released album The Unscratchable Itch, searingly witty punk by the London band with a number from the point of view of a wife whose husband is into swinging, with all the visceral, fetid detail that may entail. While dripping with irony and repressed emotions, it’s also a serious comment on trying to deal with an unhealthy relationship.
Vocalist and lyricist Sister Sniffany aka Josephine Edwards says, "After a long day at the office nothing gets you in the mood more than the smell of talcum powder, petroleum jelly and feet. ‘Clam Chowder’ envisions a secretarial administrator justifying her husbands swinging, trying to convince herself this is what she wants too, that life is good. He provides for her and he knows how to have a laugh, unlike her.”
“Because her heart breaks she feels stuck up and prudish. So often you find yourself trying to think your way out of the way that you feel, that's the true repression of freedom, rather than not being able to get your dirty lizard wet. Anyway, if you don't like your middle aged husband to shag a neighbour then you're allowed to feel any way you want about it, if you feel ashamed that you're overemotional or that you're not as free or sexually liberal or horny for sex with strangers as your partner then that's OK! Trying to change that stuff is what causes wives to shoot their husbands with a gun."
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