Clockcleaner-Babylon Rules

So there is this genre called "pigfuck" and it basically started with flipper and then went to big black then jesus lizard and continues to this day in modern bands such as pissed jeans, homostupids, grinderman, and qui. Well add another one to the list and a good one at that...introducing Clockcleaner. The music of pigfuck is dark, angsty, deeply emotional(but not sappy at all), and purely primal. The music consists mostly of repetitive riffs pounded over and over with an emphasis on the bass. The singers for all these bands differ but they all share a common thread of sounding paranoid and angry and always intense and sometimes sarcastically lazy and Clockcleaner's John A. Sharkey lll is no exception.

The music on this record is dominated with all of the above with added piano and some vocal and guitar pedal techniques. The vocals range from snarling to croonerish and sometimes very high pitchedand all very forceful. The lyrical content is very primal and fucked up, lots of sexual imagery, lots of violent imagery. At first the albums lyrics might seem offensive but it is all delivered with a tongue in cheek wit. Some of the more upbeat tracks remind me of the cramps and the eighties matchbox b-line disaster(who you all should check out!) and the slower stuff reminds me of flipper and the jesus lizard.

Every note rings perfectly on this album, every note conveys some sort of dark evil socially awkward and paranoid mindset. Anyone who is a fan of angry music that is actually fucked up and angry and not the "angry" bands of our generation like nine inch nails or limp bizkit or any other angsty bullshit band that basically is laid to waste as kid's stuff when compared to this real portrayal of the dark and horrible side of life. But dont get me wrong this album is a lot of fun, a lot of fun! it is kind of a perfect album to play in the fall especially leading up to halloween.

if you like any of the bands i mentioned minus the last few please pick this up, you would be doing yourself a great favor...and um alex you need to put this on your playlist

track by track:
1. New In Town-Dark, dirgy, long and drawn out in the best way possible 9/10

2. Vomiting Mirrors-Might be the best track on the album, starts off with an awesome looping low voiced laugh that has to be heard to be appreciated 10/10

3. When My Ship Comes In-Another slow burner full of long anunciation and fucked up imagery and lyrics, very slow and brooding. 8/10

4. Caliente Queen-Fucking amazing fun dark halloweeny stuff very reminiscent of the cramps and tight shit like that. 10/10

5. Human Pigeon-Starts off very effects laden and then develops into an awesome stomping rhythm, very repititive but with guitars swirling all around and awesome drumming it's like krautrock filtered through a drunk guy at a bar. 9/10

6. Man Across the Street-More sound effects surround a very nick caveish delivery pretty fucking amazing kind of halfway between the slow dirge and the amped up stuff on the album "where's my house? where's my wife?" i dont know but this song is tight 9/10

7. Daddy Issues-like a 60s surf song gone bad, very reminiscent of the cows with easily the most fucked up lyrics on the album, people who are easily offended might not like this one, people who love offensive shit in their music will love it. 10/10

8. Out Of the City-Another slow one that sounds a lot like flipper and is all the more amazing makes for a great closing song 9/10