

The world has developed a culture of wanting someone else to deal with it, when we need to take our own responsibility. “I wanted to look in the mirror and ask ourselves the question of what are going to do, as opposed to trying to point the finger at politicians. “This album was me looking at our inability to change to a way of life that would sustain the human race and save the planet,” explains drummer and songwriter Dan Searle. The new track comes from the band’s new album For Those That Wish to Exist, to be released on February 26 via Epitaph Records. Worse yet, "It Means Nothing", which attempts nothing short of being a Lee Greenwood anthem for London's 7/7 bombings, just makes you feel like an asshole for only remembering lines like "If the bomb goes off again/ And my brain around the train/ And I hope that I'm with you/ 'Cause I wouldn't know what to do" and "You can find yourself a god/ Believe in which one you want/ 'Cause they love you all the same/ They just go by different names." Forget the title of Pull the Pin- it's been sex, violence, and (mostly) other since J.E.E.P.'s mid-career pit stop into lightheartedness, and at this point, Jones sounds like someone who's just gonna keep crankin' 'em out until he's able to franchise a Hooters.Email Brighton metallers ARCHITECTS have released their new single and music video “Animals”, marking the band’s first new music since their 2018 album ‘Holy Hell’. The former is certainly a charmer- "The mind can be a playground if you use it /She could go down on me in a theatre." And once the dirt-dry blooze of "Soldiers Make Good Targets" begins, you half-expect him to start singing about a meatplow instead of his non-starter complaints about war (it's bad).

What you manage to catch here is typically lazy Jones quotes about grim alcohol abuse (the self-explanatory "Bank Holiday Monday") and conciliatory women ("I Could Lose Ya"). Animals Architects RIFFTASTICArchitects - Animals (Lyrics) Play this loud: Animals by ArchitectsSubscribe and press () to join the Notification Squad an. Should I just pull the pin I dug my heels, I thought that I could stop the rot The ground gave way, now I've lost the plot Fucked it again, that was all I've got It never rains, but it pours Life is just a dream within a We're just a bunch of fucking animals But we're afraid of the outcome (the outcome) Don't cry to me because the fiction that. Other? had some risible attempts at shoegazer and new wave, along with risibly confrontational lyrics. Animals Architects RIFFTASTICArchitects - Animals (Lyrics) Turn this way up: Animals by ArchitectsSubscribe and press () to join the Notification Squad. Though strings and other electronics were shelved because they're, duh, not rock, Pull the Pin rarely sounds like the result of four guys jamming out in a room.Īt least Language. Pull the Pin might be going for the uncluttered "production" of older Rick Rubin, but instead it cops the sterility of newer Rick Rubin, each song lumbering on a chassis of waterlogged tempo and Jones' wooden melodies, begging for just about anything to grab you. But it's also rock in a different sort of platonic way, as in platonic friend- no sex, no spark. Verse 2 - Derek Bum and Un-named Woman Hi, I'm Derek Bum And I'm declaring war on toilets With new Toilet Grenade Just pull the pin, pop it in the bowl, Pull the lid down, and let toilet grenade. That's what it comes down to- an effect featured on literally hundreds of better albums is the star of the show.Īwful cover art and album title aside, Pull the Pin is rock in the platonic sense, cranking out distorted riffs and power chords while Kelly Jones' vox box stays caked with ashtray residue amidst song structure having the almost mesmerizing predictability of NASCAR. Fm Cm Should I just pull the pin (Buried under dirt, a diamond in the mud) Cm A Should I just pull the pin (Infinity is waiting there cause nobody can.

By the end, you're so sapped for something memorable, that you might be willing to laud the sawtoothed guitar tone that bristles "I Could Lose Ya". "Daisy Lane" keeps you up to speed on recent knife violence in England (it's bad), but in doing so, picks at the same threadbare melody line for the song's entirety- one of the oldest tricks in the Stereophonics book. Should I just pull the pin (Buried under dirt, a diamond in the mud) Should I just pull the pin (Infinity is waiting there cause nobody can burn a glass. The only variations are laudable only for at least feigning variation- if Built To Spill's There's Nothing Wrong With Love-ending pisstake was 300% longer and somehow half as sincere, it would be "Bright Red Star". them dichotomy that's allowed the band to retreat to pleasing the diehards and somehow still stick it to scribes: no matter how many times you listen to Pull the Pin, you're still rendered nearly incapable of describing what you just heard. Writer", a laughably impotent revenge fantasy that projected their own narrow-mindedness on the critics that "shoot them down." It set up an us vs. In retrospect, it looks like these guys cast their lot with "Mr.
