The Shits - You're A Mess (2023) [Hi-Res]

Let’s face facts here; we’re all a mess. Life in the 2020s thus far has been a litany of crushing indignities at best. Living standards plummet, lies carry the same currency as truth, and rock music - that racket that once served as countercultural force and revolutionary fire - has been neutered and subsumed into nullity.That’s unless you’re listening to The Shits. You’re A Mess - the second album from Leeds’ filthiest sons - is a staggering assault of invective fit to reignite your ire, and a sound that constitutes a real and present threat to life and limb. Contained within these eight feral exorcisms is a merciless assault of Stoogian / stygian riffage, gloriously purgatorial abjection and intimidating aggro that takes a garage-rock blueprint and grinds its face in the dirt.If these grimy dirges and salvos of horror have a precedent, it’s in the menacing audial lineage that connects Fun House through the AmRep label, Brainbombs and Drunk In Hell - the process where relentless negativity is alchemically transformed into profane primal salvation. Yet The Shits worship no heroes, obeying a thanatotic urge that sees no separation between death and glory. Listen to this album and you will believe once again in catharsis by way of heavy amplification. Psych-rock is dead, and The Shits are the executioners. Assume the position.

Tracklist:
1.01 - The Shits - In My Hotel Room (7:14)
1.02 - The Shits - Waiting (3:51)
1.03 - The Shits - You're A Mess (4:16)
1.04 - The Shits - The Venus (After Hours) (5:17)
1.05 - The Shits - Bludgeoned To Death (4:13)
1.06 - The Shits - Alone II (3:57)
1.07 - The Shits - Ugly, Worthless (2:45)
1.08 - The Shits - I Regret Nothing, Pts 1 & 2 (8:53)