A.M.180 & MeetFactory present: Viagra Boys (SWE)

Viagra Boys’ Sebastian Murphy dreams about everyone hating his guts. A lot. “I kept having this recurring nightmare where my mom was crying and my friends were all pissed off at me,” he recalls, almost reverently. The band’s latest, Welfare Jazz (due January 8th 2021, via YEAR0001), doesn’t bargain with the anxiety in that defeated feeling, but rather a boiling certainty that nothing and no one is absolute. There’s plenty of blame to go around, and things are just a lot more interesting when you admit that you’re not always going to be nice, you’re not always going to pick the right words in a fist-fight. So why not keep moving forward, swaying and strutting into the night.

The album’s 13 tracks sound primed for massive stages once the world ever pulls itself out of its pandemic tailspin - and judging from Welfare Jazz, it would seem Murphy will keep his heavily tattooed torso tumbling and swaying to the end even if it doesn’t. “Writing songs means I'm not stuck feeling those things anymore,” he explains. “You can’t just be fine with whatever the fuck happens. You've gotta think about the consequences of your actions and just keep going forward.” 

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