mclusky - THE WORLD IS STILL HERE AND SO ARE WE LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition blue colour vinyl. Clear vinyl also available.

Highly recommended.

So glad McLusky came back after twenty years and decided to yell at us about random things again.

They do it in such a tuneful and hilarious way that it is hard to resist. The howls in “Cops and Robbers” make the song even better than it would normally be, repeating the punky Welsh drawl in “People Person” followed by laughs and grunts, the precise and articulateness of “The Autofocus on the Prime Directive” is hard to shake. Lead Singer Andrew Falkous is known for his wild behavior on stage and in his band between the twenty year gap (The Future of the Left) and he certainly pulls no punches in his offbeat lyrics- “I would give anything to be your cigarette” from “The Battle of Los Angelesa”, “It’s never complicated till it’s always Complicated” from “Not All Steeplejacks”, a song that feels like it might spiral out of control at any time.

“Way of the Exploding Dickhead” is probably the best example of pure joy, ending with the rant of ‘your politicians will never….’ and they leave us to fill in the blanks. “the Digger You Deep” gets the backwards sayings and angular guitars all right, with howls and yelps that keep things unpredictable.

Closer “Hate the Polls” is a bit slight, at times when the band is not being ‘intense’ does not work as well to me, at being intense is what McLusky does the best. A bit of pretentions too, with “Kafka-Esue Novelist Franz Kafka” but at least the band has imagination.

With this album McLusky proves some comebacks are definitely worth the wait.