After twenty years of facet initiatives and pseudo-reunions, the revered Welsh rock trio Mclusky have lastly recorded a brand new album—their first in 20 years. The World Is Still Here and So Are We arrives Could 9, by way of Ipecac, and you’ll hear a single from it, “Means of the Exploding Dickhead,” beneath. The one comes with a Remy Lamont–directed video crammed with satirical scenes of self-betterment.
Andrew Falkous stated of the track, “With a title modeled on/ripped off a formative online game (The Means of the Exploding Fist on the ZX Spectrum), and lyrics impressed by the massive pleasure attributable to the surge pricing on tickets to see a band play nicely within the distance, ‘Means of the Exploding Dickhead’ is a contemporary parable, with out the parable bit.”
Led by Falkous, the present lineup is accomplished by drummer Jack Egglestone (a 2003 appointee) and bassist Damien Sayell, who has performed dwell in iterations of the band all through its sporadic semi-reunions. A press launch payments “Means of the Exploding Dickhead” as a part of a two-song single with “Unpopular Components of a Pig,” which featured on one other double-A side single, with “The Digger You Deep,” in 2023. All three songs seem on the album; take a look at the tracklist beneath.
The ultimate album of Mclusky’s first part was 2004’s The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not on Fire. After that, they launched the nice compilation Mcluskyism and at last break up, leaving Falkous to deal with facet initiatives that embody one other palpable affect on the final decade of British rock, Future of the Left. As Falkous’ imprint grew on the waves of acerbic rock, post-hardcore, and postpunk that adopted, he and various bandmates often performed Mclusky units at gigs billed below caveated names: Mclusky* and ‘Mclusky’ have been two. The 2023 single was their first in 19 years, and solely now have they dedicated to releasing an album. In accordance with whoever wrote the press launch—and it has all of the hallmarks of a Falkous missive—the title had an asterisk “for a bit—out of respect for previous band members and the valuable memorial glue of teenage musical crushes—however fuck that, in for a penny, in for a pound.”
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The World Is Nonetheless Right here and So Are We:
01 Unpopular Components of a Pig
02 Cops and Coppers
03 Means of the Exploding Dickhead
04 The Battle of Los Angelsea
05 Individuals Particular person
06 The Competent Horse Thief
07 Kafka-Esque Novelist Franz Kafka
08 The Digger You Deep
09 Autofocus on the Prime Directive
10 Not All Steeplejacks
11 Chekhov’s Weapons
12 Juan Celebration-System
13 Hate the Polis
