I have to admit to finding the new album very hard to like. His slurring vocals are obscuring anything interesting he might have to say.
Mind you, I recently found myself warming to Sub-Lingual Tablet from 2015 more.
But then you listen to Hex, or some old b-side like "I'm Into CB" and there's no comparison between the pin-sharp, scathing humour of those records and what he's put out over the last 10 years. Plus the band is no patch on the Rileys, Scanlons and Hanleys of years ago - they're mostly playing on Brix's new records instead.
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