You're A Mess, by The Shits

You're A Mess

by The Shits

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KinoGhoul I am a big fan of the Stooges. The Shits sound like if you took the Stooges and stripped out the psychedelic solos. Stripped out Iggy's vocals. Then replaced it with a hard core punk singer along with a heaping helping of nihilistic lyrics.

Been a blast listening to this band. Favorite track: You're A Mess.

dfogg I thought I had no more foot hair, but now I have the shits!

Sylvain Etchegaray Music to cleanse your body and your mind. Might be better than yoga.

Der Ohlsen "The Shits murdered Psychedelic Rock, wrapped its skin around a heavy bat with Crust spikes and powerglued this weapon to the unwashed hands of a rabid Punk on cold cocaine turkey."

derohlsen.blogspot.com/2023/05/duet-of-disgust-feat-grave-desecrator.html

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1.	In My Hotel Room 07:14	buy track
2.	Waiting 03:51	buy track
3.	You're A Mess 04:15	buy track
4.	The Venus (After Hours) 05:17	buy track
5.	Bludgeoned To Death 04:13	buy track
6.	Alone II 03:56	buy track
7.	Ugly, Worthless 02:45	buy track
8.	I Regret Nothing (Parts 1 & 2) 08:53	buy track

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Let’s face facts here; we’re all a mess. Life in the 2020s thus far has been a litany of crushing indignities at best. Living standards plummet, lies carry the same currency as truth, and rock music - that racket that once served as countercultural force and revolutionary fire - has been neutered and subsumed into nullity.

That’s unless you’re listening to The Shits. ‘You’re A Mess’ - the second album from Leeds’ filthiest sons - is a staggering assault of invective fit to reignite your ire, and a sound that constitutes a real and present threat to life and limb. Contained within these eight feral exorcisms is a merciless assault of Stoogian/stygian riffage, gloriously purgatorial abjection and intimidating aggro that takes a garage-rock blueprint and grinds its face in the dirt.

If these grimy dirges and salvos of horror have a precedent, it’s in the menacing audial lineage that connects Fun House through the AmRep label, Brainbombs and Drunk In Hell - the process where relentless negativity is alchemically transformed into profane primal salvation. Yet The Shits worship no heroes, obeying a thanatotic urge that sees no separation between death and glory.

Listen to this album and you will believe once again in catharsis by way of heavy amplification. Psych-rock is dead, and The Shits are the executioners. Assume the position.

...don't take our word for it, this what The Quietus’s John Doran says this about the album:

“Terrible, terrible bastards The Shits are here with all the spiritually uplifting, life affirming, serotonin boosting properties of a dark amber, ammonia stinking, three-day rave piss, in the form of new transmission, You’re A Mess. Starting with a bludgeoning, left of centre, Amphetamine Reptile punk take on The Stooges that laughs in the face of more recent flat white-sipping, pantywaisted post rock and post hardcore innovations and instead concentrates on a caustic, clangorous, bone-cracking assault on all that is right and proper. But steady your nerve, delve into their metallic, acid stripped, pig-fuck grooves and you will find a chaotic world
of inverted psychedelia and jet black – fucking appalling – enlightenment waiting for you.” John Doran

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released April 14, 2023

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IN A HELL

04/05/24 - The Lubber Fiend, Newcastle.

07/06/24 - Mystic Fest, Gdansk.

24/07/24 - Paris, Le Cirque Electrique.
25/07/24 - Besancon, Les Passagers Du Zinc.
27/07/24 - Clermont-Ferrand, L'Hotel des Vil.e.s.
29/07/24 - Kortrijk, The Pits.

30/08/24 - End of the Road Festival, Dorset.

31/08/24 - Supersonic Festival, Birmingham ... more

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