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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nWhen Manchester trio Aerial Salad set the date of late March 2020 for the release of their awesome \u2018Dirt Mall\u2019 album who could ever have predicted that their fierce barrage of spikey adolescent punk pop was about to run headlong into a metaphorical career brick wall known as a global pandemic. That record really should have seen the Salad boys (Jamie Munro on vocals and guitar, Mike \u2018Wimbo\u2019 Wimbleton on vocals and bass and Jake Marshall on drums) leapfrogging all comers on the global scene but as with anyone with musician as their job description back then they were largely forgotten overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How any band reacts to such outside forces is always going to make or break them, and in the case of Aerial Salad having to seemingly \u201cstart over again\u201d (for want of a better phrase) only seems to have further galvanised them as a musical tour de force. With time on their hands to further refine and define their songwriting formula, the band\u2019s follow up record \u2018R.O.I.\u2019 is indeed a mighty fine return on investment for all the blood, sweat and tears shed in the intervening years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Released on April 12th<\/sup> 2024 via Venn Records (the label run by Lags from Gallows and home to the likes of Bob Vylan, Clobber and Meryl Streek) \u2018R.O.I.\u2019 sees the post punk influences of the band\u2019s early \u2018Roach\u2019 era tunes crashing headlong into the Seattle guitar rawk of \u2018Dirt Mall\u2019 whilst adding a whole new twist to the Aerial Salad sound, something the lads have been quick to dub Madchester Punk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n