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Debut LP from Ben Carr (Natural Causes)
Doncha just love it when a record sounds elegant, tasteful and charming straight off the bat? If you answered yes, better swivel on those smartly-soled heels and walk away this is not the record for you.
Personality Cults debut LP is short, sassy, snappy, snotty and bursting with razorwire hooks thatll leave you bleeding but delirious, head spinning from the frantic glory on display. This is powerpop-punk as it was always meant to sound a nod to the Buzzcocks wonky melodicism, a punch in the ribs of Steve Adamyks hi-velocity brilliance, a perfectly-aimed loogie in the drink of the Marked Mens enduring pop timelessness We are all in the gutter, but some of us brought tunes for dancing and pogo-ing around the record player, so lets get to it.
Brazen is just one of the many winners here, combining gut-shakingly punchy drums with a nailbomb attack of taut guitars and the catchiest chorus this side of Pete Shelley. Heart Attack follows suit easily the best punk single of 1977, right here and now and brand new for you in 2018.
One of the most overdone descriptions of the genres simplicity is the word dumb well, Personality Cult are on hand to show that smarts aint no bad thing. On Fashionably Late you can hear traces of the Coneheads Devo-lved weirdness as well as the effortless pop genius that propels the rest of the album so why am I singling out individual cuts when the whole is all this good? Theyre all winners give em all a medal.
Basically, if this is a cult, Ill cheerfully take my robe and hand over my life savings right fucking now.
Will Fitzpatrick.
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