Austerity Dogs

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A perfect introduction to the Nottingham duo creating a hybrid of Public Enemy and John Cooper Clarke. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. He talks about "music scene-think-they-ares", then speaks as if he is one ('I'll have a 32" waste in raw denim and stick 'em in the freezer').

Sleaford Mods are kinda doing to rap what Kill the Vultures did a few years ago, but in a less cerebral way. Condemned To Hope' is where Black Moth truly render themselves a glimmering presence in the firmament of 21st century rock. Brilliant," I thought, "more wannabe 'Mod' twats selling that line about how important it is in working class culture to wear a sharp coat. It should be on the school curriculum, and then maybe all those young kids that watch all that pish on TV (X-Factor) etc might then realise that there is real music out there and not just ear rotting, soul destroying drivel that they are force fed, beg steal of borrow this album and get listening! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.With the DJ in mind, optimum sonic integrity has been maintained by removing the CD version's beatless opening and closing tracks, and the remaining 11 tunes have been re-sequenced and re-cut to allow those 4 that have until now not appeared on vinyl to be presented in newly-mastered 12-inch-standard audio across the first 2 sides ('Wounder', 'U Hurt Me', 'Spaceape' and 'Prayer').

They're also a big part of the burgeoning Leeds heavy rock scene alongside Pulled Apart By Horses, Kong, Hawk Eyes and Gentlemen's Pistols, it looks like it's about to break. Vinyl is very thin and flimsy and came out the shrinkwrap with a slight warp and "scrunch" on the runout of side 1. The perfect antidote to waking up with sludge tongued Stella ache and Russell Bland bleating revolution from every orifice. It's only one of more than 50 great albums released this year, but it's arguably the most genuinely "punk", "urban" and "street" UK recording out of the whole bunch. It jumps out of the speakers and squares right up to your face, an eyebrow cocked, an acute feral intelligence in tow.

Their debut 'The Killing Jar', which was released in 2012, was hailed by many as 'one of the best debut album's you'll hear all year' - it even made it onto Kerrang's top 50 albums of the year. In her book Revolting Subjects, the sociologist Imogen Tyler shows how tabloid hate figures (the poor, immigrants, Roma, single mums, etc) aren't simply 'abject' but are produced as such: forced to live in squalor and then, as that squalor takes effect, demonised by the press and bourgeois small-mindedness/self-interest. Does it matter that this 'album' is actually more like a patchwork quilt of various tunes the Mods have released down the years? Sleaford Mods is an English music duo based in Nottingham, composed of vocalist Jason Williamson and musician Andrew Robert Lindsay Fearn (since 2012).

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