Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz CD

Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz

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:
1 Ain't Nice
2 Cold Play
3 Toad
4 This Old Dog
5 Into the Sun
6 Creatures
7 6 Shooter
8 Best in Show II
9 Secret Canine Agent
10 I Feel Alive
11 Girls & Boys
12 To the Country
13 In Spite of Ourselves

Label: Year0001
Released: 2021