RegurgitatorLet's be honest, we know this is going to get at least a little bit silly.
This is the band whose commentary on the music industry's evolution has previously seen them recording one album in a 'bubble' studio and releasing another as a wearable button badge. But as Quan Yeomans and Ben Ely drop their comparatively conventional ninth album, genres get characteristically spliced and diced while the lads seem to be having a shitload of fun. There's more going on under the surface though. Grafitti Is Coming Alive may well be a reaction to artist Ben Adams (aka Freak Street), whose cover image was inspired by the 'Gurge's initial album concept of constantly being under mental and social pressure, which in turn fuelled the band to go even harder with its execution.
Admiration of Joy Division producer Martin Hannett shines through on Not Alone (and again on gentle closer The Spirit Of Ian Curtis), and there's some very Ween-y buffoonery on Weird Kind Of Hard. And while Party Looks is as daft and semi-sensical as most half-heard conversations on a dancefloor, like most of Headroxx, it's got the hooks.
