ALBUM REVIEW: Viagra Boys – Cave World

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Released: 08.07.22

Shrimps. Cowboys. Monkeys. More shrimps. Welcome to the batshit world of Viagra Boys. The Swedish post-punks’ new album Cave World is fittingly-titled, bringing to mind a demented subterranean sound machine, fronted by the deranged ramblings of that one uncle you desperately try to avoid at family functions.

All slugging grooves and preposterous choruses, the 12 deceptively intricate tracks on display here stumble and lurch along with the chaotic impetus of a silent movie drunk on a treadmill, poking and sniping at everything and everyone from trollish keyboard warriors to anti-vax conspiracists with a signature bare-knuckled sarcasm. Nobody does it quite like Viagra Boys, and Cave World is yet further affirmation of their status as the scene’s glorious oddballs.