By Jim Rowland
After more than 30 years off the radar, South East London’s legendary psych/punk misfits Your Heterosexual Violence are back with a new line-up and a brand new album, one they felt they had to make before one of them dies! Thirty years is quite a lengthy hiatus, but as ‘Some People Have Too Much To Say’ proves, it was worth the wait.
Recorded at Press Play Studios in South London, ‘Some People…’ was produced by Andy Ramsay of Stereolab, a good fit for a band as eccentric and eclectic as this. Containing 12 new tracks, the album breezes through a heady mix of punk, post-punk, psych, pop and jazz, with compelling and often amusing lyrics throughout.
The likes of ‘House Outside The World’, ‘Love Will’ and ‘Valentines Day’ are quality slices of catchy punk/psych fusion, ‘I Could Be With You’ is another catchy number in the pop-punk direction and ‘The Boy Who Had 10,000 Parents’ is an irresistibly bouncy psych/punk ditty with some crazy jazz sax thrown into the mix.
Elsewhere, ‘The Plan’ and ‘Changing The Subject’ are noisy, angular and spiky post-punk stormers, perhaps with a hint of The Fall to them, whilst the funky jazzy ‘Man In Flames (At C&A)’ and the dark groove of ‘Song From the Bottom of the Heart’ add some extra dimensions to the overall sound of the album.
Clever, inventive and eccentric, with punk and psych at its core, ‘Some People Have Too Much To Say’ is an album Your Heterosexual Violence can certainly be proud of.
- ‘Some People Have Too Much To Say’ is out now.