THE VERMIN POETS – THE
VERMIN POETS EP (SMARTGUY RECORDS)
Despite their garb
there is something positively refreshing about The Vermin Poets. This is an outfit seemingly brought together
to produce art in an offensive manner and be suitably derided using the garage
rock form.
This four song seven
inch EP is the formal introduction of the latest musical outfit of Billy
Childish. For it he has teamed up with
Neil Palmer, former singer and guitarist with Fire Dept. Filling out the foursome are Wolf Howard
previously seen in the Buff Medways and Childish’s wife Julie (Ju Ju Claudius)
exchanging drum duties.
It begins with
something of a mission statement and the track “Vermin Poets”. If calling cards were a concept with these
guys, this would be it. Not that
there’s make any sense. The words are
very self defacing, defeatist and defiant, which is a combination of attitudes
and aspirations I am not necessarily convinced is a winning stroke. At least they use the word sonnet.
In execution there is
something very The Who sounding in the work.
As Palmer leads on vocals at times his strains remind of Robert Pollard
in safety mode.
The second side of the
record opens with an ode to Jim Morrison and “The Doors Of Perception” which
feels like a total piss take of the Lizard King. And rightfully so.
The band appears to be
telling some kind of joke, one that is more likely to be on you rather than
them. After all I did pay £6.49 for a
seven inch single.
Thesaurus moment:
parody.
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