Really big on the mouth – that’s again from two old white men. The Sleaford Mods have a lot to pick up on their twelfth album UK GRIM, especially with the establishment and in classic British macho punk manner. Yawn, the lyre again. But the sound of this crisis product is interesting. Hip-hop beats and thumping basses are used, but also more conservative rock rhythms, the rage is spread across all 16 bars, and the attitude is borrowed from punk. “You’re all gettin’ mugged by the aristocracy,” frontman Jason Williamson spits like he’s a conspiracy theorist, but actually it’s all about fighting on. “I got crisis stamina, full marathon,” he grumbles into the microphone. We have survived the pandemic, war and economic crisis – is that supposed to be all?
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And: does the England we can be proud of still exist? If so, then definitely not the England that those up there want to sell us as England. The two older gentlemen from Nottingham are still patriots, but just in their phase of defiance. It can be done, but that’s where this patriotism thing should stay before the Naziskins get wind of it. But that’s how it’s always been with the Sleaford Mods: Sure, somehow they’re leftists and mad at the elites, but would they put on the mask and march through the crisis in solidarity? It’s hard to hear at times, and that’s what makes it exciting.
Author: Anastasia Rutkowski
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