WHILE rock music sells by the bucketload - most of it seems to have no ambition beyond soundtracking middle-class dinner parties - it is good to know bands such as Mclusky still exist.
Play this at a dinner party and it would curdle the gravy. Having made three albums out of the art of committing commercial suicide, the Welsh trio continue to specialise in discordant two-minute blasts of black-humoured, sarcasm-laden art-punk, heavily influenced by The Fall, The Pixies and unsurprisingly, their producer, American noise guru Steve Albini.
It is abrasive, difficult, and won't trouble Keane in the sales department, but there is enough moments of crazed lyrical and musical inspiration here to make it well worth the odd bleeding eardrum.
Updated: 09:04 Thursday, June 17, 2004
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