Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz LP+CD

Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz

2022 “Deluxe Edition” on black vinyl. Features a bonus CD containing extra tracks.

Great news! Viagra Boys are back with their new album Welfare Jazz. After 180 live shows to support their debut release Street Worms - events of 2020 have slowed down the bands prolific touring schedule allowing them to create this masterpiece of an album. The album’s 13 tracks sound primed for massive stages once the world ever pulls itself out of its pandemic tailspin--and judging from Welfare Jazz, it would seem Sebastian Murphy will keep his heavily tattooed torso tumbling and swaying to the end even if it doesn’t.

The album by Stockholm post-punk hero’s is produced by Matt Sweeney (Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Run the Jewels), Justin and Jeremiah Raisen (Yves Tumor, Kim Gordon, Sky Ferreira) as well as past collaborators Pelle Gunnerfeldt and Daniel Fagerström (The Hives, The Knife).

Ever the band drenched in satire, they return with their brand of horn-filled, searing post-punk and rejection of standard genre trope’s to deftly lay waste to society’s normalization of toxic masculinity, racism, misogyny, classism, and self-obsession. Throughout Welfare Jazz, Murphy digs into the absurdity of the mundane and the mundanity of the absurd - like a kid sitting too close to the TV, taking the Saturday morning cartoons deadly serious and laughing at cable news, all while gobs of mashed frosted cereal threaten to spill out of his manically chewing maw.

Tracklist:
Welfare Jazz
A1 Ain't Nice
A2 Cold Play
A3 Toad
A4 This Old Dog
A5 Into The Sun
A6 Creatures
A7 6 Shooter
B1 Best In Show II
B2 Secret Canine Agent
B3 I Feel Alive
B4 Girls & Boys
B5 To The Country
B6 In Spite Of Ourselves

Welfare Jazz Deluxe Edition
CD-1 Girls & Boys (Patrik Berger Remix)
CD-2 Dream Interlude
CD-3 You And Me Baby
CD-4 Blue Bone
CD-5 16 Wheeler Horse
CD-6 Aint Nice (Rotterdam Mix)
CD-7 Creatures (Someone’s Great Version)

Label: Year0001
Released: 2021/2022