ALBUM REVIEW: Viagra Boys – viagr aboys

Shrimptech Enterprises

Released: 29.04.25

Raucous and unflaggingly wry, Viagra Boys’ fourth LP deliver a heady jolt of subversive grit and absurdist humour suffused with the Stockholm sextet’s potent post-punk swagger. Ever the pawky wit, frontman Sebastian Murphy aptly forgoes the overt agitation of 2022’s Cave World for a darkly playful, if no less searing, prism. “Overweight freaks ride around on wheelchairs motorised by…motors made by goblins…overseas”, he deadpans on Man Made of Meat, setting the tone for an album that revels in its own giddy puerility while skewering societal foibles.

Elsewhere, The Bog Body and Store Policy further flaunt the band’s knack for infusing distorted grooves with acerbic commentary, while unexpected moments of tenderness – see piano-driven  closer River King – hint at a newfound vulnerability.