Words | Aleksandra Brzezicka
1/6/20
@_brzezicka
If you didn't see the newest fierce and frenzied addition to the Leicester scene live, aka Spudge, before lockdown, well, you missed a hell of a show. No point despairing though, especially when they've got a new single up their sleeve. Meet 'Cat Bloke'
Spudge is a taking-the-piss, joy-oriented formation, unapologetically experimenting with sounds and forms, crossing and entangling boundaries. They're a surprise-child of Iggy Pop and Ozzy Osbourne, goofing around with The B-52s, and we do love surprises. So after two boozy-busy years of being a band, Spudge has finally birthed the first single.
'Cat Bloke' is a double A-side, recorded and mixed by Liquid Tone Production, with two tracks on it, 'Cat Flaps' and 'Iron Bloke'. Turn the volume up, it's about to get noizzy. We got served a screamy and punky version of Spudge, condensed in two roaring minutes, times two. 'Cat Flaps' sounds like it was made at 3 am, after (or during) a beer-boozy night of boogying to King Gizzard. The shattered vocal occasionally emerges from the weirder, the louder kind of instrumental situation, so the whole sits together tightly. There's a method in this madness. It's fast, fun and simply slaps. 'Iron Bloke', an apparent homage to Black Sabbath, is fuelled on sickeningly speedy drums. It hits you hard, riding faster and faster, a hundred miles per hour so before you even realise what happened, it's over.
'Cat Bloke' is dangerous while playing aloud at home. It makes you want to leave your lair, have a few with your mates and hit the streets like in the old days. Hold on, for now. There's an album coming.
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