Album of the Month - January 2021

Viagra Boys
Welfare Jazz

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Photo credit: Marcus Wilen

Sweaty hysteria for sardonic lone-rangers and future Godfathers of punk.

Who
Viagra Boys are your best, worst, Swedish nightmare complete with screechy-satire, a John Prine hoedown, and an age-old lust for sax-y nightclubbing.

What
Following on from their critically acclaimed (and Rough Trade staff favourite) debut Street Worms, the much-awaited sophomore return sees these old dogs stirrin’ shit up with some of their gnarliest tricks. Blazingly out-casting socially mis-demeaning narratives is significantly nicer, when carried out by a gang of self-described assholes.

With
The Stooges, Grinderman, The Stranglers, Fontaines D.C, Snapped Ankles.

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Words by Al Mills