{"title":"Thee Alcoholics","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"bear-bites-horse-sessions-2","title":"Bear Bites Horse Sessions","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrankers of amp, torturers of fuzzbox and denizens of small-hours salvation, Thee Alcoholics dished out a rancorous and righteous debut in their decent \u003ci\u003eFeedback\u003c\/i\u003e – one that filtered gnarled riffage and motorik malevolence through a uniquely debauched prism in pursuit of some extremely ill-advised audial dystopia. Thee Alcoholics may have started life as the home-birthed brainchild of Rhys Llewellyn (Hey Colossus\/Acidliner\/Drmcnt) yet an evolution since has proven the ultimate form of this beastly creation to be the live arena. In assembling cohorts to turn these visceral jams into something to shake rafters and rattle pint-glasses, new frontiers of ornery intensity have made themselves manifest, and such is the form of the monstrous Bear Bites Horse Sessions, a live-in-the-studio document recorded with Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse studio in Haggerston, London, chronicling a band breathing life into a Stoogian paradigm, and doing so apparently whilst barely breaking a sweat. Taking essential elixirs of in-the-red mania, hypnotic repetition and deathless swagger, these twelve jams walk a crooked path that neighbours the nihilistic vortex of Loop, the saturnine lurch of The Fall and the deadpan derangement of The Heads but remains possessed of a maverick charisma and mischief all its own. Lovers of lysergic heaviosity and the sound of a Marshall 4x12 violently spluttering its last will find much to satisfy here, but moreover \u003ci\u003eBear Bites Horse Sessions\u003c\/i\u003e is a testimony to sonic punishment as a gateway to new horizons, audial excess as a path to wisdom, and answers, right or wrong, being found  in the bottom of a glass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50465473003851,"sku":"2216341","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Bear_Bites_Horse_Session_fc399159_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727289782"},{"product_id":"live-at-the-piper","title":"Live at the Piper","description":"\u003cp\u003eHuman Worth are proud to present a super limited edition pressing of Thee Alcoholics recorded live at The Piper in St Leonards Warrior Square and mastered by Jon Hamilton of Part Chimp. Shape shifting south London noise rock outfit Thee Alcoholics have been not so quietly releasing a hand full of sell out tape eps and 7” singles for a couple of years now. Songs that rail against injustice, intolerance and institutionalised Great British apathy – neatly wrapped around screeching, trash guitar riffs and blast beat driven bass synths. Mixing the gnarly, outsider big muff energy of early Tad and Mudhoney with the industrial crush repetition of Godflesh. Ugly vocals are buried somewhere between the Brainbombs and Girls Against Boys. A relentless brick to your face wake up call of cynical musings. This live recording is a document of the journey so far – 30 minutes of agro drunk rock n roll. In the red sizzle of a load of broken equipment. The band barely holding it together in their chaotic element. 10% of proceeds and all remaining profits from this record will be donated to the south London based charity The Lewisham Primary Care Recovery Service – supporting local people to reduce or stop their drug or alcohol use and offer a safe space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Human Worth","offers":[{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50481888264523,"sku":"2028720","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/HW027_TheeAlcoholics_LiveAtThePiper_CoverArt_7846b94b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727546175"},{"product_id":"feedback","title":"Feedback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThee Alcoholics are the brainchild of Rhys Llewellyn, a longtime Rocket Recordings alumnus whose background leans as heavily into the bassbin-shaking realms of electronic music as it does the tinnitus-inducing world of howling, cranked-up ampstacks. Not content with hammering drumskins for numerous floor-shaking records on the Rocket discography from the likes of Hey Colossus and The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers, he’s also been responsible for brain-rearranging electronic works under the Drmcnt and Acidliner monikers. Thee Alcoholics, however - which initially gestated as a result of Rhys himself wanting to pursue the somewhat hostile sound in his own head during lockdown - maps out a collision course between all of the above. Cranky and cantankerous yet lysergically aligned, Feedback is mesmeric rock with swagger, warped into sci-fi shapes by the spirit and sonics of bass and soundsystem culture. The psychedelic shapes here are redolent of the ur-klang of The Fall and the monolithic lurch of The Heads, the motorik malevolence less an uplifting trip to the heavens than a drill down to the earth’s core. Discernible in these jackhammer beats, grimly murmured vocals and delirious dirges to certain heads may be the trash futurism of Chrome, the decomposed stomp of unsung legends Earl Brutus and the electro-punk attack of Six Finger Satellite, yet all of the above co-ordinates are waylaid effortlessly by a balls-out intensity and a fearsome intent on aural oblivion at all costs. Feedback may be elemental and primal, yet this is no psych comfort-blanket nor retro-fetishism, rather a repetition-driven journey headlong into intimidating territory unknown. Get on board, and strap yourselves in for a bumpy ride.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50530363867467,"sku":"2174005","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/TheeAlcoholics__Feedback_LAUNCH328_Sleeve_31f6c22d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728077303"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/thee-alcoholics.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}