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\"\"<\/a>Every now and then here in the UK a band connects with a generation and explodes into the mainstream. Nirvana, the Sex Pistols, Oasis, the Arctic Monkeys and Slaves are just a few who have achieved this, and this year I think we are very likely be adding the name of Aerial Salad to that stellar list too. Granted over the decades there have been scores of other bands I could have named but these bands perhaps have the most in common with where Aerial Salad\u2019s heads are at, and it only takes a few bars of opener \u2018Virtue\u2019 to tick off the Seattle influence buried under a lyric from frontman Jamie Monroe that is designed to tear the clothes from off your backs and rip the flesh from your bones\u2026quite literally.<\/p>\n

I should perhaps admit that when I first witnessed Aerial Salad a few years back supporting Wonk Unit in Bristol they didn\u2019t exactly blow me away, it was good yes, but to my ears it wasn\u2019t really the second coming that their manager Daddy (Alex) Wonk would have us believe, not at the time anyway. Fast forward to early 2020 and witnessing the band supporting (who else but) Wonk Unit, and they were like an altogether different band.\u00a0 Playing songs largely drawn from \u2018Dirt Mall\u2019 this time Aerial Salad sounded every bit like the second coming, something that was quickly reinforced just a few days later when they premiered the video to \u2018Romance?\u2019, a song so amazing that it alone should have you hovering over the \u201cAdd to Cart\u201d button on the band\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

This is dirty punk rock folks albeit a version that is never afraid to throw you a killer pop hook or two along the way and for that reason the likes of \u2018Fever Dream\u2019, \u2018Lazy\u2019 and the insanely catchy \u2018Such A Pity\u2019 could all very well have been hit singles had they been released when singles sold in their millions. For me it\u2019s the likes of \u2018Temp\u2019 \u2018State O\u2019 Yer\u2019 and \u2018Dirt Mall\u2019 that have me slamming and bouncing around the room like a teenager all over again, all of them perfectly capturing the frustrations and anger of someone growing up in this age of austerity. Oh, and whilst we are on that subject in album closer \u2018Stressed\u2019 we have perhaps the definitive anthem to be written about the Tory\u2019s social cleansing initiative.<\/p>\n

Just as Butch Vig did for Nirvana on \u2018Nevermind\u2019 producer Paul Tipler (allegedly hired by the band simply because they loved the work he did on Leatherface\u2019s \u2018Mush album but I\u2019d like to think they were also aware of his awesome work with the mighty D4) allows each of the nine tracks on \u2018Dirt Mall\u2019 the space to breathe whilst simultaneously capturing an uncontrollable energy that is designed to cave in your cranium. Something that can be lethal in the right hands\u2026and here it\u2019s deadly.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dirt Mall\u2019 is released on 27th<\/sup> of March on a variety of different coloured and signed vinyl formats (all of which come with a free CD copy) via the band\u2019s website linked below, and it\u2019s a record that really should be in every self-respecting music fan\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n

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Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n