Future of the Left
The Future of the Left are the 2nd band to rise from the corpse of McLusky. For those not in the know, Mclusky are the best band ever. Or at least the best Welsh punk band ever. Or somewhere between those two statements. Shooting at Unarmed Men was the band bassist Jonathan Chapple of Mclusky started. They were pretty good. Future of the Left is guitarist Andy “Falco” Falkous, drummer Jack Egglestone, and Kelson Mathias, who comes from the also-defunct band Jarcrew (who I have never heard of). And they are fucking awesome. They aren’t too far from Mclusky, ‘natch. But Malthias adds a noisier more aggressive sound and the band is also writing tighter catchier songs.
There are so many good songs that I really had trouble picking one to post. Seriously, this album might be as good as anything Mclusky ever did. The one I’m feeling the most right now is called “Manchasm”. It has the line “Mark Foley was right” repeated many times, but I’m not sure if that is a reference to Republican U.S. representative and star of page-fucker-gate Mark Foley.
Future of the Left - Manchasm
Curses is their debut album and will come out digitally on 9/25 and will be in stores via Too Pure on 10/9.
