Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs (2021) [Official Digital Download]

When the only music you can stand is the drumbeat of rage coursing through your aching head, the Sleaford Mods are always good for a spin. They’re Nottingham, England’s answer to the Fall, with singer Jason Williamson rant-rapping about everything from austerity-era Britain to consumerism to the foibles of the music business over Andrew Fearn’s spare-yet-sharp beats.

Spare Ribs, the Mods’ 11th LP since they formed in 2007, is a veritable a la carte menu of outrages. Sick of hipsters who fetishize the blue-collar existence? Check out “Nudge It,” which kicks off with Amy Taylor of Amyl and the Sniffers growling “Gimme, gimme,” then descends into a clattering evisceration of “fucking class tourists.” Tired of crooked, elitist politicians who only care about their pockets? Pop on “Short Cummings,” a sneeringly obscene takedown of Dominic Cummings, chief adviser to the prime minister of the United Kingdom. On the verge of murdering your entire family in a lockdown-induced haze? You’ve got “Top Room,” which “talks about the daily ordeals of dealing with lockdown at home, having everybody at home every day,” according to Williamson. It also contains the lyric “I think I want something to come out of my phone that ain’t there,” which is an all-too-accurate take on social media malaise.

TRACKLIST

1. Sleaford Mods - The New Brick
2. Sleaford Mods - Shortcummings
3. Sleaford Mods - Nudge It
4. Sleaford Mods - Elocution
5. Sleaford Mods - Out There
6. Sleaford Mods - Glimpses
7. Sleaford Mods - Top Room
8. Sleaford Mods - Mork n Mindy
9. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
10. Sleaford Mods - All Day Ticket
11. Sleaford Mods - Thick Ear
12. Sleaford Mods - I Don't Rate You
13. Sleaford Mods - Fishcakes



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