Sleaford Mods
Sleaford Mods
- LP
- Label
- Rough Trade
The Mods' newest self-titled EP ! Follow up to their 217 album English Tapas.
Sonically it’s unmistakably the Mods’: you can almost see Andrew Fearn nodding his head to the plodding bass guitar lines that run through the heart of it. And Jason Williamson’s sharp-wit and biting social commentary is intact – more riled than ever, if anything. It sets Williamson further on the path to becoming one of the most enduring lyricists of an era. Honing in on ordinary lives in Britain, this holistic work manages to tell stories of violence, depression and paranoia whilst seeing this behaviour as inextricable from corrupt political actions.
Speaking of the EP, Williamson said: “The lead tracks are mostly full of violent tendencies that only transpire through imagination. People are powerless under the political monster and the intense anger and frustration morphs into illusions of attacking each other through the bravado of social media, depression and paranoia.”