Basically former Welsh indie It Band Mclusky with a new bassist (former Jarcrew leader Kelson Mathias), Future of the Left picks up pretty much exactly where Mclusky left off, with some of the electronic aspects of Jarcrew mutated into leader Andrew Falkous' nervy twitch-grind-shriek aesthetic on tracks like "Manchasm" and "Suddenly It's a Folk Song." Most of the album is devoted to tightly wound spurts of feedback and fractured rhythms, such as the first two singles "Fingers Become Thumbs" and "The Lord Hates a Coward." Falkous' lyrical outrage, daffy displays of dark humor and instrumental aggression will be welcome to old-school Mclusky fans saddened by that band's sudden 2005 split, but even with the welcome changes brought by Mathias' inclusion in the band, there's a certain staleness to Curses: over the course of Mclusky's three albums, they explored as much of this Pixies-derived territory as can be usefully explored, and songs like "Fuck the Countryside Alliance" and "A Dead Enemy Always Smells Sweet" can't help but sound a bit like retreads to anyone with a copy of Mclusky Do Dallas.
EDITED TO ADD HOT MP3 ACTION!!!So, to sum things up:Kids were sick for, like, a month. Wife and I still have some strange traces of whatever it was the kids suffered through. Work turned into a nightmare again with weird hours and working through nights and weekends and blahblahblah ... On top of it all, my strikingly handsome three-year-old boy Drayke was diagnosed with autism (on top of his blin
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This is my new discovery. Future of the Left are a new band from the little known province of the UK called Wales. Already sort of familiar sounding to me as I'm a massive fan of Mclusky and 2/3 of this band were in them, including the singer. Hasn't left my CD player since I got the album. Love it!
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