Lampost Gullivers
All Your Worldly Schmutter
UK MARBLE EAR 001 CD (2013)
Pigfuck!! There…I’ve said it. My apologies to those out there of a delicate sensibility. if you let me explain? It was a genre term (alongside ‘scuzz’ of course), beloved of the Stud Brothers (?) and their ilk from the long-expired Melody Maker and was used to corral wanton U/S. noiseniks from the late eighties such as Killdozer and Kepone. And it’s these now forgotten words that come to mind when confronted, nose-to-snout, by Lampost Gullivers‘ debut c.d. All Your Worldly Schmutter. Its sleeve art resembling a Prof. Bruce Lacey-curated museum undergoing a glitter conciousness phase. Once seen, never forgotten.
The firmly entrenched vocal attack of Liam Ings-Reeves on “Womb Fury” and “Sons of the Alamo” can unfortunately slide towards the neanderthal gruntage of the extreme metallist division. Likewise “The Devil Comes with a Comb-Over” which sounds intriguing, but once those impenetrable lyrics spew forth…it’s clear that we’ll never really know if sixties/seventies footballers Ralph Coates or indeed Bobby Charlton (Burnley/Spurs and Man Utd. respectively) are accused of being B.L. Zebub a.k.a. “Ole Scratch” in disguise or not. But all that’s of a secondary nature really, as Liam’s particular breed of six-stringed brute must have distortion/fuzz box units built in a tenfold series as it lays waste to all before it, feeding off of the national grid like some radioactive blob from a Japanese monster movie. And when that’s dogged by the vicious bass judder of Chris Mowforth (ex Silverfish!), the disc’s sludge quotient goes sky high. It’s not all in that vein though, rest easy pilgrim! With lyrical input hijacked from that visionary genius William Blake, the weird lurch of “A Poison Tree” and the lilting exercise in ethnoforgery; “A Turkish Market” offer interesting avenues for further experimentation come second album time. Listen…if there’s to be a revival in the scuzzy pigfuck trade…these boys will be right there in the vanguard.
Marble Ear Records, c/o 14 Shannon Court, Dynevor Road, London. N16 0DD.