We Love You

Leeds noise-rock and DIY linchpins return with their first album in 10 years. They have spent a while getting this album right, writing songs that describe a world where the council lets it rot and the kids make trouble, or sometimes music. A guy goes into a shed to build a guitar pedal and accidentally invents a time machine, ending up millennia back thinking about his future ex’s. Complex drum and bass arrangements emerge and the songs have to be reconsidered. The guitar needs something... better build a couple of amps to get that just right. The Passion Of The Kid is a live favourite developed out of Can style, four and a half hour jam. Featuring a relentless two note bass line, that somehow never gets boring, it provides the backbone for a lyrical diatribe on Brexit Britain, namely Armley in Leeds, culminating in the refrain; “The Lord giveth, The Lord taketh away”. Other highlight includes Wheel of Yew with it's PiL bass lines, Spacemen 3 guitar and a blistering Butthole Surfers-esque solo are all held together with the tightest drumming this side of Bill Ward, as we witness guitarist Joe O'Sullivan take in a brisk autumnal walk with his dog Dolly from Otley to the top of Ilkley Moor. For fans of PiL, Butthole Surfers, Spacemen 3, Thee Oh Sees and Parquet Courts.