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The album title “UK Grim” says it all: all Sleaford Mods albums and concerts are grim. Grim are their faces and their words. The duo from Nottingham gets angry at pretty much everything that happens politically and socially in their country. Rapper and singer Jason Williamson grimly judges old heroes like Liam Gallagher or Damon Albarn. He grimly castigates the harmlessness of post-punk millennials à la Idles.
Sleaford mods are the uncrowned kings of bad moods
Sleaford mods are the uncrowned kings of bad moods. They’re the grouches from the tenement. They come to complain, without compromise or double bottom. They spit poison and bile. They are the antidote to populism and social cuts – and the kind of band that is unthinkable in this country for exactly that reason.
DJ Andrew Fearn’s sparse sounds amplify Williamson’s poetic tirades against a rotten establishment. The title track throws us right into the heart of the chaos of Britain between the hapless Liz Truss and the Range Rovers in London’s business districts. But it also goes in the other direction, downwards: “DIWhy” mocks those punk musicians from the DIY sector who still adhere to the credo “The poorer, the more authentic”.
Wüterich Williamson is joined by dry-cleaning singer Florence Shaw on the malicious, synthesizer-driven “Force 10 From Navarone”. The more disturbing duet, however, is “So Trendy” with Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction. Sleaford mods are best without guests, though, like when they’re chasing the “Right Wing Beast” over a broken sample that sounds like a bastard from David Bowie’s “Heroes.” “Apart From You” is even reminiscent of Paul Weller with its vocal harmonies. This music knows whose shoulders it is standing on. And yet, Sleaford mods are an original force. “UK Grim” contains the brutality it takes to feel a morsel of truth.
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