It’s around 10 minutes long.
It has 16 tracks on it.
No Revenge of the Phsycotronic Man haven’t reformed.
The Crapson mini album is available to pre-order now or out on Friday 18 March from https://crapsons.bandcamp.com/album/songs-to-make-a-brew-to, we are going to try to review all 16 tracks, oh yeah, try.
Award Winning Porridge sets the theme for the album. Big, heavy, really good sounding production. A count in leads to some observations about porridge and then after 12 seconds its over. Done and dusted, the important subject of cereal media is dealt with. Move on.
Park People turns out to be one of the longer tracks at nearly a minute and a half. Big booming rock n roll bass line, loose almost Stoner Rock sounding drums and passionate singing come shouting about people and things found in parks. This will be a killer track live, it grooves along and keeps building up tension.
Going 82 on the A55 describes behaviour that leads being sent on speed awareness courses. It does so with another great riff and within 12 seconds it’s done. We delve into Half Man Half Biscuit territory lyrically and Ian Brown is the Resurrection marvellously sends up Ian Brown and his repeated internet messiah complex postings about shite. The Sorbet Tandori keeps up the pattern. Single subject songs, delivered with sharp blasts of music and mainly between 12 to 25 seconds. Jenny Doody is a Grass continues. Its wry though and observational lyrically. Blunt too.
Petrol is a stand out track, a bit longer and with some great sounding drums and bass sounds powering through a minute or so of petrol station anger. Its snappiness doesn’t distract from its awesome big sound. Really this mini album is well played and the recording sounds huge, a pretty fantastic noise. The addition of a third member in the form of Mr Teds Guitars to the already tight sounding drums and bass of Messrs Gilbert and Markey is filling out the sound in a great way too.
Teabags and then Elephant continue in the same way blasts of noise and anguish and yeah, thats what would happen if there was an Elephant in the room, obvious really. An Instruction t oVan drivers sounds almost like a prog rock epic (Editor: not really) compared to these tracks, what with its almost patient build up and multiple musical sections. We think its safe to say the band have little sympathy for poor old Prince Phillip. By this point in the (mini) album The Crapsons have refined their style even more. A bouncy riff, some funny/not funny lyrics and some outstanding drums all collaborate to bring a smile to this reviewers face. It’s almost as if I’m thinking ‘Go on, do it!’ as each new machine gun burst of rock n roll n punk n doom bursts forth from the speakers.
The album is now starting to work as a whole thing which each musical diatribe contributing to a greater whole. Bandcamp Friday comments on the financial drain of being in a band and Insulate Britain comments on the far larger issue of Britain retiring from the world (effectively).
Front Row Knobhead has a more regular ‘tune’ going on but a no less eviscerating lyrical approach and Final Echo has a pretty cool riff going on for its 40 seconds.
So its about 10 minutes long all in, its got fuzzed and scuzzed up stringed instruments blasting away over some very cool sounding drums. Listen to it in one go (Editor: Really?) and it stands up as a complete work. Yeah you can hear Crapsons own style mixed in with some Half Man Half Biscuit observational musings and some great sounding production. Its funny was hell, but not soft, nah, this is all razor sharp, no sentimentality here.
Words: Richie Yates, Photos: Band Media/Richie Yates
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