After 20 years of aspect initiatives and pseudo-reunions, the revered Welsh rock trio Mclusky have lastly recorded a brand new album—their first in 20 years. The World Is Nonetheless Right here and So Are We arrives Could 9, through Ipecac, and you may hear a single from it, “Approach of the Exploding Dickhead,” under. The one comes with a Remy Lamont–directed video full of satirical scenes of self-betterment.
Andrew Falkous says of the track, “With a title modeled on/ripped off a formative online game (‘the best way of the exploding fist’ on the zx spectrum), and lyrics impressed by the massive pleasure brought on by the surge pricing on tickets to see a band play properly within the distance, ‘means of the exploding dickhead’ is a contemporary parable, with out the parable bit.”
Led by Falkous, the present lineup is accomplished by drummer Jack Egglestone (a 2003 appointee) and bassist Damien Sayell, who has performed stay in iterations of the band all through its sporadic semi-reunions. A press launch payments “Approach of the Exploding Dickhead” as a part of a two-song single with “Unpopular Components of a Pig,” which featured on one other double-A aspect single, with “The Digger You Deep,” in 2023. All three songs seem on the album; try the tracklist under.
The ultimate album of Mclusky’s first section was 2004’s The Distinction Between Me and You Is That I am Not on Fireplace. After that, they launched the good compilation Mcluskyism and eventually cut up, leaving Falkous to give attention to aspect initiatives that embrace one other palpable affect on the final decade of British rock, Way forward for the Left. As Falkous’ imprint grew on the waves of acerbic rock, post-hardcore, and postpunk that adopted, he and various bandmates sometimes performed Mclusky units at gigs billed underneath caveated names: Mclusky* and ‘Mclusky’ had been two. The 2023 single was their first in 19 years, and solely now have they dedicated to releasing an album. In keeping with whoever wrote the press launch—and it has all of the hallmarks of a Falkous missive—the identify had an asterisk “for a bit—out of respect for previous band members and the dear memorial glue of teenage musical crushes—however fuck that, in for a penny, in for a pound.”
