Few posts from me lately, since I’ve spent most of my free time working on my top 50 albums of 2021 list, which will be online this Wednesday. Here’s a quick post about the latest, and what probably will be the last Rik And The Pigs release. Rik And The Pigs imploded in 2018 but not before recording two final sessions in California – one with Mike Kriebel (The Beat Sessions guy), another with Tony Santos. Lumpy Records thought the recordings were too good not to put out, and I’m grateful for that decision.
Here is how the label describes the band: “The Pigs, man…those guys are the laziest delinquent sort of pig slobs ever born, but at least they’re well rehearsed. They’re salty from marinating in the degenerate RNR Dick Manitoba, Cheetah Chrome and Dave E gave us long ago and it shows. Ricky the cunning wordsmith delivers with weasel verve, as one with an actual Venus in Taurus would. There’s a rawness and honesty here that has more to do with 80s hardcore than the modern garage rock scene that has embraced them.”
If you need any more reason to listen to this one, I’d say The Last Laugh is an excellent posthumous release full of old school dirty punk that is as catchy as it is obnoxious.
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