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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Anglo-American Imbeciles are led by writer \/ guitarist Butch Dante’s , originally starting out as a conventional punk band, Wartoad,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2019’s ‘The Imbeciles’ debut album was taped in eight deranged days,(so the story goes) in a haunted studio on the Texan-Mexican frontier, For the new album, Youth from Killing Joke\u2019s El Mirador studio in southern Spain ,was utilised taking the music in a totally different direction. Along with the band Youth’s musical partner Michael Rendall played keyboards, with Youth playing bass and co-writing throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now at this point I have to say I stand by everything I said about the band live even though this recorded version is a very different ball game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Opener \u201cTiny Blue people\u201d sleazily crawls out of the speakers a real rock and roll intro grounded in the underground rock sound, a real ear worm of a track that really sticks with you the guitar riff holding you in a post punk haze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the opposite end of the scale next up \u201cIts not about you\u201d is almost alt pop perfection not unlike the direction Rich Ragany is moving in the vocals leading, the guitar picking at you with a real arena sound. This then takes us into \u201d I\u2019m not the One \u201c hitting the sort of heights set out by Beastmilk, this LP really is all over the place, you just can\u2019t pin them down (Not unlike the live set).<\/p>\n\n\n\n