Dirt Cult (2021)
I have written several times about the dearth of new records in 2021. There have been so few albums that have caught my interest and for the first time ever, I'm actually concerned I'm not going to be able to put together a top ten list, let alone a top twenty. I don't know if it's just fewer records being released or if I'm just started to slip into irrelevance. Regardless, I've been way more interested in hunting down records from the 90s than I have been about anything coming out this year.
The new Needles // Pins records is something of a microcosm of this dilemma. This is a band that I know and have been listening to for nearly ten years. I have all of their LPs and have enjoyed them all. You can include this new one in that mix as well. This is an extremely well written and well put together album. It has that Leatherface-esque gravelly vocal thing going on that I like so much. You can play it right after Dear Landlord or Off With Their Heads or Dillinger Four and it fits right in.
But for some reason, I'm not as excited about this album as I think I would have been at another time. Yes, it is a good record and it is absolutely one of the best thing I have heard this year, but it's just not grabbing me and holding my interest as much as I'd expect it to. I don't really know why. I can't point to anything about the record that isn't what I usually want out of a band like this, so I assume the problem might be me.
Either it's fatigue from a seemingly never-ending pandemic or I may have just crossed that line and I'm too old to stay excited about new music. I'm really not sure, but I feel like if this record had come out a year earlier, I would have been much more enthusiastic about it. But again, I think it's me - not the album. If you've dug the band in the past, this record hits all of the right spots, it's definitely worth picking up.
Needles // Pins - Needles // Pins:
https://dirtcultrecords.bandcamp.com/album/needles-pins
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