CHUBBY AND THE GANG
The Mutt’s Nuts
[Partisan]
ou think you know what ground you’re on with The Mutt’s Nutts. The first half of the album is a collection of unfiltered, no-frills hardcore, Charley Manning Walker’s cockney rasp harking back to UK punk’s earliest days when it collided head-on with pub rock. They rail against gentrification and police brutality, highlight the plight of young lives spent rotting in prison, and paint a surprisingly furious picture of a day in the life of a cabbie A pitch shift in the middle demonstrates just how much more with its ripples of tambourine echoing the Jesus And Mary Chain at their gentlest, to which picks up the baton from Billy Bragg at his most romantic, to the doo-wop melody of the moments of beauty make the explosions of rage all the more powerful.
