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Tuesday 31 July 2012

Leatherface - Mush


This could well be the best album you've never heard !!!

It's not quite punk, its not rock either, it's as hard as some hardcore, and while the songs are certainly tuneful and catchy, it's definitely not "pop punk". Green Day can get to fuck basically

There are subtleties in the interplay of Frankie Stubbs and Dickie Hammonds guitars (while they still thrash and rage away), and, not to put too fine a point on it, Stubbs is a soulful, thoughtful songwriter with the heart of a working class, home-spun poet. Yeah, his voice sounds like a bucket of gravel and fag-ends, but so did Louis Armstrong and Tom Waits. Imagine the bastard offspring of Lemmy and Bob Mould. And Leatherface do hit as hard as old Hüsker Dü crossed with Motorhead.

If you like tuneful hardcore, lyrics that aren't your standard fuck the system or emo crap, then you owe it to youself to listen to this album


I want the moon
How lonely
I don't want to be the one to say it
Pandora's box
Not a day goes by
Not superstitious
Springtime
Winning
In the real world
Baked potato
Bowl of flies
Dead industrial atmosphere
Trenchfoot
Scheme of things
Message in a bottle


3 comments:

  1. I have been listening to this album since 94. One of, if not the best Leatherface album.

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  2. i think so too! such an underrated band i think or undiscovered!

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  3. Loved them at the time, love them now. Good old Frankie Norman Warsaw Stubbs.

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