Mclusky - 'Mclusky Do Dallas' (Too Pure)
3/5
By: Toby L
It doesn't take a rocket-scientist to make music like this. But it clearly does take a psyched-up bunch of Welsh nutters to do the honours. Welcome, Mclusky.
Seriously, give this band a series of mansions in the country and flashy cars just for the fact alone they employ humour in their music. Really, it's a refreshing change to all of the current geeky-boy-chases-girl 'Emo' scene, let alone the 'Oh my God, please pass me the razor-blades now I've just had my convertible scratched by a low-flying pigeon' temperament of nu-metal. With track-titles such as recent 45-release, the opening and extremely mental 'Lightsabre C**ksucking Blues' - possessing vocals not dissimilar to the jagged tones of the Beastie Boys - and 'The World Loves Us And Is Our Bitch', before you've even heard the record, you can tell you're in for something special.
Surely some of the madness begins with the song-lengths; weighing in with fourteen meaty tracks of pulverising energy, the LP is only 36 minutes in duration. Still, though, the ideas and vision make up for the lack of spinning-time - and it's pretty clear where much of their inspiration has derived from. 'Mclusky Do Dallas' was recorded by the legend that is Steve Albini - and thus it's only fitting that the producer's latest band to work with bear resemblances to the guitar-blazing fury of the Pixies' more wild moments - not just in the guitars, but also in the Frank Black-esque full-throttle voice-assaults. The only time when things calm to an almost relaxed pace is during mid-point, 'F**k This Band', and even then - rather unshockingly - things are still hardly a walk in the park.
'My band is better than your band,' is sung/shouted at one point on this LP. Well, what with so many rock-pretenders around these days, and an LP as vibrant, stimulating and exciting as this, there's a high chance that the words they utter in this instance are of a very truthful nature.
Artists in this article: Mclusky
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