Street Worms

Viagra Boys - Street Worms
Critic Score
Based on 7 reviews
2018 Ratings: #183 / 882
User Score
Based on 433 ratings
2018 Ratings: #127
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CRITIC REVIEWS

85
Northern Transmissions

If Viagra Boys’ words are not enough to sum up society’s ills and the madness of human life, the music is.

80
Loud and Quiet

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.

80
God Is in the TV

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.

80
musicOMH

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.

80
Q Magazine
Blackly comedic, this is a great debut.
75
The 405
Viagra Boys create post-punk songs in the ilk of The Men or Parquet Courts, but blues is also a distinctive vein running throughout new album Street Worms. This is infused through their ace-in-the-hole saxophone use and also Seb’s tales of woeful characters in each song– although these are not just down-on-their-luck losers, but mentally unwell societal outcasts.
74
Pitchfork

With theatrical élan, the Swedish rabble-rousers lampoon the masculine and the moneyed on songs that match parody with precision.

SnowyFighter
85

WEINER DOGGGG

FUCK. OKAY. I think I finally fully get the appeal of this band. With the buzz around Cave World I knew it was about time to hear their debut. Tbh I dint really think too much of this band in the beginning just because of how absurd they seem but I’m starting to really like them much more. I need to revisit Cave World again but this might be their best album. The songwriting is just top notch for what they’re going for, and it’s their most consistent project to ... read more

halbery
75

Just go look at my review of Welfare Jazz, honestly. This album is just that album but a little less good. Still enjoyable though!
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/halbery/album/290508-welfare-jazz/

Least Fav Tracks: Frogstrap; Just Like you
Fav Tracks: Down in the Basement; Worms; Sports; Slow Learner

Plats
85

I'm sorry but Viagra Boys is too good of a name to even ignore! This album did not disappoint! The lyrics are insightful yet hilarious and the amount of charm here is admirable! Wiener Dogs are fucking everywhere (in both ways!) and greasy tennis balls will smack you in the face, followed by you quoting with pride on your face, "Basketball"!

Fav Tracks: Just Like You, Sports, Down in the Basement, Frogstrap, Shrimp Shack, Slow Learner

Least Fav Track: Worms

Score:
8.5
Exceptional

Nautalcrtzsm64
80

not as eccentric as in their latest effort but still amazed by a careful and well played post-punk act, certainly the writing is much more labile here but you can already see here how they stand out from the rest, from Sebastian Murphy's vocal register to the dissonant choices but always on the verge of arrangement

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Fav Track: Worms

jrustuster
94

this is where they shine most with their unique weird cartoony punk with a good batch of fun and chill tunes like worms and beijing taxi as well

Phnobb_
80

"He is looking down upon planet earth / And urinating in the mouths / Of those who thought a canine would never walk upon the moon."
Holy shit this album was fun to listen to. Everything felt reight. The lyrics were good and hilarious when you started listening to them, the music managed to combine punk and saxophone somehow. I feel like the only thing holding it back were the intrumental parts. But even those were good, it's just a little sad to know that I missed out on what ... read more

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Added on: September 12, 2018