If Viagra Boys’ words are not enough to sum up society’s ills and the madness of human life, the music is.
Following two EPs of promising if not revelatory garage-punk, Viagra Boys’ ‘Street Worms’ offers few surprises but comes armed with lashings of charisma and character.
Overall, Street Worms is a real triumph, with only the odd lapse into self indulgence letting in down here and there, and the mind-bogglingly dreadful band name. Other than that? It’s a corker.
These are pissed-off men playing with the tools of some of the pissed-offest men in recorded music history. But they do it with such intensity, and with such finesse, that you can’t help but get enthusiastic about them.
With theatrical élan, the Swedish rabble-rousers lampoon the masculine and the moneyed on songs that match parody with precision.
#11 | / | Gaffa (Sweden) |
#14 | / | Loud and Quiet |
#28 | / | Norman Records |
#57 | / | NME |