★★★★ The English rockers’ new album glitters with rage ✒️ katiesol
can accuse Sleaford Mods’s 52-year-old frontman Jason Williamson of being old – not when he is brimming with youthful verve. The spicy duo has made another album that is absolutely – and rightly – furious at the state of things. It glitters with verses that are funny and clever on the subject of what an absolute mess the UK is in, and particularly the idea of England that we have in our heads and how it clashes with the reality of life here.
It begins with an ominous bassline and doesn’t get much lighter from there. The general message of the record is summed up in the title track: “This is UK Grim, put it in the bin” – a sentiment that’s hard to argue with given that in the UK, having somewhere to live has become an increasingly impossible luxury.
Often this ire bubbles into other outlets – like when Williamson is furious with Sleaford Mods’s contemporaries. A media trainer’s nightmare, he has taken deadly aim at a wide selection of “man shouts over guitar” bands in the past, from Idles to the band previously known as Slaves . Although he claims to have calmed down a bit in interviews, he doubles down on his disdain for the beards’n’tattoos crowd in the venomous “D.I.
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