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Robert Nichols discovers a brilliant and catchy new release from the post-punk agit-popsters
Fire Records
Released: 04.04.25
Old dogs with new tricks aplenty, perennial post-punk angular agit-popsters The Nightingales snap back again with an album as important and demanding of your ears and minds as the last one. They play the Same Old Riff, mining Bowie glam to deliver a punchy drunk on power-chords attack on right wing populism – musing sarcastically the powerless are the problem, as if, as if…
So many great lines and titles, and why wasn’t Giddy Aunt a Lloyd song years ago? No soft centre with the reflective Just Before before going back all in. Princess and the Piss Artist sees Baritone Bob Lloyd’s digging deeper than a Lee Marvin’s Wand’rin’ Star parade.
A sizzling expose. Brilliant and catchy. Quite simply a great album.
