{"id":13815,"date":"2020-11-02T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13815"},"modified":"2020-10-27T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T14:00:06","slug":"spunk-volcano-the-eruptions-barry-milner-is-thick-avenue-recordz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13815","title":{"rendered":"Spunk Volcano & The Eruptions \u2013 \u2018Barry Milner Is Thick\u2019 (Avenue Recordz)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If songwriters really do think of their songs as being like their children Spunk Volcano must have to keep a beady one eyed watch over every song he writes for the Eruptions, simply because they are the type of tunes that would hang around the shops looking to nick your XR3 whilst flicking you the vees out the back window as they speed off into the night looking for a little road rage.<\/p>\n

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Hot on heels of 2019\u2019s expansive and belligerent \u2018Double Bastard\u2019 set, the wonderfully monikered \u2018Barry Milner Is Thick\u2019 is a collection of fourteen of Spunk\u2019s new children that not only continue with his wry life observations but also in places sees the masked menace move the Eruptions sound into (dare I say it?) what some might call a more commercial direction.<\/p>\n

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From the opening \u201cwoah ohs\u201d of the hook-laden \u2018Broken Hearts Make Better Songs You See\u2019 through the thunderous bass driven lead single \u2018Football In The Sun (Ossie Ardiles)\u2019 to the chugging \u2018Soldier On\u2019, the opening 1-2-3 are perhaps the most melodic tracks Spunk has ever penned for the Eruptions, and in doing so I think he\u2019s going to perhaps draw more than just the odd comparison with his other band – Dirt Box Disco. I really do not mean that as any form of criticism, especially as that band\u2019s last album (\u2018TV Sex Show\u2019) is easily one of their strongest in years, but when you have the same singer in both bands these things are perhaps going to be inevitable.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Hard As Nails\u2019 quickly brings things very much back onto more familiar Eruptions turf though and as a song it does exactly what it says on the tin, leaving me feeling like I just received a sonic boot in the bollocks from the masked man and his Eruptions.\u00a0 Likewise, \u2018Swiss Army Dick Head\u2019 continues the sideways look at local bellends whilst \u2018Little Red Buggy\u2019 perfectly criss-crosses the metal\/punk tightrope the band have always chosen to traverse.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Magic Manakin\u2019 and \u2018I Should Have Seen It Coming\u2019 once again move proceedings into singalong territory with the former containing one of the most infectious opening riffs the band have ever written. \u2018Council Pop\u2019 miraculously turns water into a 1 minute 43 second thrasher and in current single \u2018Only Got Eyes For You\u2019 Spunk and the boys might have written their greatest song yet. However, when you also add into the mix the anthemic \u2018Looking For Something\u2019 (which reminds me of Argy Bargy jamming with Misfits!) and the brutal \u2018It\u2019s Fucking Shit\u2019 (a song I would love to think has been influenced in some way by The Hip Priests\u2019 Austin Rocket\u2019s infamous online music reviews) it feels kind of wrong to pick out single tracks for a special mention.<\/p>\n

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A new Spunk Volcano & The Eruptions album wouldn\u2019t be complete without a couple of musical curveballs and here it\u2019s the album\u2019s second single \u2018Tomorrows Promises\u2019 that has a pounding later day Living End kind of vibe to it plus the emotionally charged album closer \u2018Caving In\u2019 which really do push the Eruptions sound into a whole new dimension.<\/p>\n

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Written and recorded by the \u2018Double Bastard\u2019 line up of Spunk on vocals, Maff on drums, Joey on bass, and Tom and Scott on guitars a long time before the current Covid-19 pandemic, whilst \u2018Barry Milner Is Thick\u2019 once again dabbles in the darker sides of life it\u2019s still guaranteed to put a smile on everyone\u2019s face and for me \u00a0it once again reaffirms the fact that if degrees were awarded for songwriting social commentary, Spunk Volcano would have a masters in it.<\/p>\n

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Released on vinyl and CD on 4th<\/sup> December 2020 via Avenue Recordz, you can pre-order your copy of \u2018Barry Milner Is Thick\u2019 now by clicking the link below.<\/p>\n

Buy ‘Barry Milner Is Thick’ –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n

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