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Mclusky

I Sure Am Getting Sick Of This Bowling Alley

Mclusky are a band who were a band, weren’t a band, then are a band again. they formed in the late nineties and unformed, for the first time, in 2005, after three albums, opinions of which can be found on the internet.

The path to re-becoming a band started in 2014, with the band playing sporadic shows to raise money for a local venue threatened with closure and after some misadventures, which can be put down to life in its most wonderful forms, in 2025 they released their first record in twenty years, and now in 2026, they continue with more new music in the form of this 6-song mini album.


TRACK LISTING

1. I Know Computer
2. As A Dad
3. Spock Culture
4. Hi! We're On Strike
5. Fan Learning Difficulties
6. That Was My Brain On Elves

Mclusky

The World Is Still Here And So Are We

The heralded UK band’s first album since 2004 and first for Ipecac Recordings.

Having formed in the late nineteen-nineties and releasing music, if that is what it was, from 2000-2004, Mclusky disbanded soon afterwards in a slow motion farce of not enough drama to get much press off the back of it. Now they are back fuelled initially by spite but now enjoying it too much not to do it, and playing to crowds in the UK, US and Australia which are much bigger - and more hygienically inclined - than in their so-called heyday. So far nobody has complained, except for one guy in Leeds (and he was clearly on ketamine). They are writing a new album - entitled 'the world is still here and so are we' due for release in may 2025.

TRACK LISTING

1. Unpopular Parts Of A Pig
2. Cops And Coppers
3. Way Of The Exploding Dickhead
4. The Battle Of Los Angelsey
5. People Person
6. The Competent Horse Thief
7. Kafka-esque Novelist Franz Kafka
8. The Digger You Deep
9. Autofocus On The Prime Directive
10. Not All Steeplejacks
11. Chekhov's Guns
12. Juan-party System
13. Hate The Polis

Mclusky

The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire - 20th Anniversary Edition

Twenty years ago, mclusky released their third album, 'The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not on Fire' via Too Pure. In the years since, their legend has only grown, proved by their recent sold-out tour dates and announcement of a new album. Alternative Press described them as “a smash up between the scabrous rock noise of the Jesus Lizard and the jagged rhythms and open spaces of Gang Of Four”. Originally produced by the late, great Steve Albini, this reissue has been mastered by his close friend and Shellac bandmate, Bob Weston.

TRACK LISTING

1. Withoug MSG I Am Nothing
2. That Man Will Not Hang
3. She Will Only Bring You Happiness
4. Kkkitchens, What Were You Thinking?
5. Your Children Are Waiting For You To Die
6. Icarus Smicarus
7. Slay!
8. You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus
9. Lucky Jim
10. Forget About Him, I’m Mint
11. 1956 And All That
12. Falco Vs. The Young Canoeist
13. Support Systems

McLusky

McLuskyism

Mclusky are dead. And yet "Mcluskyism" is here; a lasting testament to one of the most under-rated UK bands of recent years. There are few around that share their musicianship, graft and humour which, aptly according to Pitchfork, 'lightens the harsh crunch of their mom-murdering instrumental beatdown' and 'gives them a way to take the piss out of themselves'.

Mclusky

The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire

New drummer, new album, new single, new tour, Mclusky are back and primed to release the follow-up album to 2002's excellent "Mclusky Do Dallas". Life between these two records has seen a world outside of Cardiff fully embrace them. Amongst other things, they've toured virtually everywhere, broken many a guitar, survived a near fatal tour bus smash and seen their original drummer depart the band on their way. Not known for being slouches, they also released two interim EP's last year, from which, only the track "1956 And All That" has made it on to this album. Like its predecessor, this was recorded by Steve Albini in his studio outside Chicago but this time Bob Weston of Shellac fame has got in on the action (playing trumpet on "Forget About Him I'm Mint").


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