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Recorded in a snake pit, in a quarry, on top of a mountain, in the desert, at night, during a thunderstorm, Bad Guynaecology is the second album from Hackney's Bad Guys. Full of heavy riffs, pounding drums, and wild vocals laid down on seven-foot-wide steel tape, then smelted into WAVs by an irritable dwarf in an ancient forge, in space, Bad Guynaecology truly is the soundtrack to your generation. Whoever you are. Production duties on this album fell to esteemed metal producer Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Cathedral, Angel Witch). For fans of Motörhead, Harvey Milk, Melvins, Thin Lizzy, The Jesus Lizard, Torche, MC5, Killdozer, Black Sabbath. Bad Guys are a southerner, a midlander, a Canadian, and a Hungarian. They have played at several ATP festivals without ever being asked, razed a chalet to the ground on one occasion and got heavily fined, then next time played directly outside the security guards' accommodation and got shut down. Learning from experience, they opted to play inside the main building next time and were shut down due to being a fire hazard. They've played on the fourth plinth in Trafalger Square as part of Antony Gormley's One and Other art installation, where they were told to shut down as well even though you were supposed to be able to do whatever you like. They've played in a theater, as part of a poorly judged bit of experimentalism by a director. They weren't shut down but it was clear everyone wanted them to leave. Then they played in the life-drawing room in the Royal Academy (the oldest life-drawing room in the country), where they performed naked and people drew them, with varying degrees of success. They weren't shut down and lots of intellectuals said it was interesting. As well as all this stuff they've played in countless pubs and clubs and parties up and down the country and around Europe and have been generally very well received. Apart from in Glasgow, where the promoter didn't bother turning up, the DJ played techno to warm up, and one drunk woman kept shouting at them to shut up. Digipak CD limited to 500 copies.
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LP version in high-gloss sleeve with printed inner bag; limited to 400 copies.
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Bad Guys is an album that rides a horse and drives a van. It doesn't own any furniture and it hasn't bothered sorting out digital television, it just watched the channels disappear one by one until they were all gone. Then it kicked the screen in and broke its foot and didn't go to the hospital. It drinks, it fucks, it fights, it throws up and it gets up and fucks again. It's not complicated, it's heavy rock music. There are concepts there, somewhere, but they're crushed under a ton of rock, and rendered irrelevant. And rightly so, because who wants to complicate a party? Lazy comparisons time -- take this lot and bash 'em together: Melvins, Black Sabbath, Harvey Milk, Motörhead, ZZ Top, Trans Am, Killdozer, '90s Am Rep, Thin Lizzy, MC5, Deep Purple, etc. Bad Guys. A Midlander, a Southerner, a Canadian, and a Hungarian. Three necks, two kicks, and no mic stand. Long hair, grey hair, bald-heads, and beards. A shitload of rock. The works. As well as playing with the likes of Circle and Oxes, these guys have earned a reputation for crashing all sorts of parties. They've played three ATP festivals, played on the plinth in Leicester Square, played Field Day, pissed off a lot of security, got a bunch of fines, and helped a lot of people have a lot of fun. Formed through a mutual desire to play some rock music that's not had the life squeezed out of it by some kind of po-faced academic mangler, they make the heavy stuff and they play it loud, the way it should be. Pressed on 140 gram classic black pure virgin vinyl, in a printed outer sleeve, 3mm spine and black paper inner. Limited edition vinyl-only LP of 300 copies.
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