Viagra Boys are again with flirtatious sax, satire 1-liners, and eccentric vocals.
Explosive intro ‘Baby Criminal’ opens up a can of worms, as Viagra Boys unleash a frenzy of instruments, making on their stapled contact of sensational sax and erratically screamed vocals from frontman Sebastian Murphy.
Adopted by a sequence of tranquil appears, ‘Cave Hole’ replicates artificial seems of the sea, and is a small breakdown of delicate textures right before Viagra Boys boastfully bounce you again to their soaring pace. ‘Troglodyte’ is the next one launch off the album, a hyper-charged keep track of with lyrics spouting an evolutionary guide, blended with nudges about today’s culture paying as well considerably time sat behind their laptop or computer screens. ‘Troglodyte’ is a person of several album standouts and sees Murphy spit out signature grunts and screams.
‘Cave World’ will come as the band’s third studio album, next final year’s ‘Welfare Jazz’, ‘Cave World’ paints rock’n’roll via a rose-tinted glass – distorted, warped and just absolutely intriguing. Viagra Boys have developed their acclaim on the prefix that they are accomplishing things in different ways, getting designed an army of enthusiasts from their jobs, Viagra Boys weave in hints of electronica, intensive bursts of sax, and angsty spoken-phrase vocals across this soaring new album.
Fourth track ‘Punk Rock Loser’ is joined with a Western themed music video. Busting out some wonky-searching line dancing, ‘Punk Rock Loser’ is of program found off with the bang of a pistol in the length. ‘Punk Rock Loser’ has a subtle wit and irony to it, I guess, between the online video and the strong tempo of this keep track of – it is effortlessly the minimum punk tune you’ve heard in your lifetime. But that’s the real beauty of it: you genuinely give into the loser intel of it all, whist feeling the urge to continuously nod together. It’s a complete earworm, with a durable hook.
Wired ‘Ain’t No Thief’. This edgy track once again flings the listener again into the ring of doom, it is a punching run of adrenaline that appears out of nowhere. At this place into the album, you will have grasped the topic by now. ‘Cave World’ provides a burst of three interludes – ‘Cave Gap,’ ‘Globe Earth,’ and ‘Human Error’ – each bringing you down to the solace of peace as a result of muffled sounds and nominal synth.
Lyrically ambiguous, ‘Cave World’ is an album that concerns an array of thoughts-boggling conspiracies. The album channels Viagra Boys’ sharp wit by means of and by means of – the bluesy ‘Big Boy’, for case in point, is just yet another glimpse into their humour. It performs off on all the assets you’d think about associating with any adult, however its flirtatious circulation and vocal shipping implies the full reverse. Somehow, you just can not consider a phrase of it seriously, as nevertheless you are questioning the “big boy,” façade, an evidently intentional playful contact. ‘Big Boys’ is found off with a concluding verse from famous Sleaford Mods frontman Jason Williamson.
Concluding with theexplosive ‘Return To Monke,’ Viagra Boys close ‘Cave World’ off with comical digs at today’s modern society, with lyrics like: “don’t get that vaccine man, they’ll switch you into a computer…” Viagra Boys stamp a good large watermark over this album as they engrave their aesthetic ideal down to its core. ‘Cave World’ sees them bounce back with a further grandiose LP just a yr soon after their last – legitimate wonder staff.
8/10
Words: Laviea Thomas
