Album Review: UK Grim by Sleaford Mods

Sleaford Mods don't do anything traditional, nor do they do anything trendy. It's a small area where they operate in; a liminal space where all the bile and discontent shits what it eats and vice versa. That innate appeal has made Sleaford Mods rise from grassroots curiosity to household name. You'd think, though, that within such a specific MO--between Andrew Fearn's thrifty beats and Jason Williamson's motor mouthed malcontent--their records start to feel formulaic and easing towards self-parody.

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Sleaford Mods have to be one of the most consistent music acts out there. When it comes to their sonic approach for their latest album 'UK GRIM', the Nottingham duo continue their winning formula of irascible yet sagacious insights on life in the UK . Sleaford Mods are no strangers to holding back and this certainly rings true when it comes to 'UK GRIM', their twelfth studio album.

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Photo by Ewen Corker Grim indeed, this post-COVID, post-Brexit, pre-apocalypse Britain, where prime ministers strive — and fail — to outlast heads of lettuce, inflation rages and strikes cripple the healthcare system. And honestly, who better to chronicle these distressing times than Jason Williamson, the speaking half of Sleaford Mods and our century's reigning poet of irascible contempt? Like its title track, UK Grim waxes artfully dyspeptic, its words a palimpsest of layered, complicated reference to current events and contemporary culture. "U.K.

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