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Mclusky review – back after 20 years, the Welsh absurdists are still funny, sweary and frantic

Brudenell Social Club, Leeds Showcasing their first album in two decades, the post-hardcore trio range from furious to hypnotically groovy, their music as taut as a stretched elastic bandThe early 2000s guitar rock wave which made stars out of the Strokes and the White Stripes left noisier Cardiff post-hardcore types Mclusky underground, despite a hugely acclaimed album in 2002’s Mclusky Does Dallas. Still, two decades after their acrimonious split, the trio’s fourth album The World Is Still Here and So Are We – their first in 21 years – is getting rave reviews and they’re playing to packed houses. “Three songs in and we’ve already broken a guitar string,” sighs singer and guitarist Andrew “Falco” Falkous, insisting: “That’s not a badge of honour. It’s a technical problem.”The frontman’s ongoing struggles with tinnitus and hyperacusis mean he now has to perform wearing noise-cancelling headphones and needs a plexiglass sound barrier around Jack Egglestone’s drum kit, but with new bassist Damien Sayall thrashing away like his life depended on it they’ve lost none of their intensity. Their furious songs suggest a British Jesus Lizard or Fugazi, but the reflective She Will Only Bring You Happiness or hypnotically groovy new People Person take them somewhere else entirely. Continue reading...

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