The follow-up to 2019's Eton Alive, featuring Amy Taylor of Melbourne punks Amyl and the Sniffers and the British newcomer Billy Nomates, finds the duo charged with ire at the UK Government’s sense of entitlement, epitomized by its devil-may-care approach to the coronavirus crisis. It will be out on January 15 2021 via Rough Trade. Pre-order your copy here.
Recorded in lockdown in a furious three-week studio blitz at JT Soar in July, the polemical Jason Williamson and dexterous producer Andrew Fearn kick against the pricks with unrivalled bite, railing against hypocrisy, inequality and apathy with their inimitable, scabrous sense of humour.
Commenting on the new album Jason says, “'Our lives are expendable under most governments, secondary under a system of monetary rule. We are stock if you like, parts on a shelf for the purposes of profit, discarded at any moment if fabricated or non-fabricated crisis threatens productivity. This is constant, obviously and notably in the current pandemic. The masses cannot be present in the minds of ill-fitting leaders, surely? Or else the realisation of their catastrophic management would cripple their minds. Much like the human body can still survive without a full set of ribs we are all 'spare ribs’, preservation for capitalism, through ignorance and remote rule, available for parts.”
The band have also shared the video for their new single "Mork n Mindy" Ft. Billy Nomates, described as "the sound of the central heating and the dying smells of Sunday dinner in a house on an estate in 1982. Concrete, dinted garages, nicotine. Where beauty mainly exists in small cracks on the shell of your imagination."
Spare Ribs Tracklist:
01. The New Brick
02. Shortcummings
03. Nudge It (Ft. Amy Taylor, Amyl and the Sniffers)
04. Elocution
05. Out There
06. Glimpses
07. Top Room (Ft. Dr Lisa McKenzie)
08. Mork n Mindy (Ft. Billy Nomates)
09. Spare Ribs
10. All Day Ticket
11. Thick Ear
12. I Don't Rate You
13. Fishcakes
