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Mush's new album is Leeds but not as we know it.

Lines Redacted Hayley Scott , February 25th, 2021 09:18 Leeds post-punks Mush have returned. And they have brought the riffs. Hayley Scott smells a potential future classic Since its epoch during the late 1970s, there have been myriad post-punk revivals, leading to a presumed cultural fatigue. The truth is, contemporary post-punk is as powerful, challenging and exciting as it’s ever been, and the reason why is simple: post-punk, like punk, has always lent itself to socio-political themes. It makes perfect sense: the very nature of politics is, like music, rooted in conflict and harmony. An...

Bandcamp / Buy Mush’s Dan Hyndman savors every syllable. On the Leeds post-punk band’s second album, the vocalist and guitarist delivers five-dollar phrases with obvious glee, offering acerbic commentary ripped from international headlines. Songs about Russian bots meddling in elections and drinking bleach to cure COVID-19 could only be written in the present day, but Lines Redacted also serves as a monument to the band’s late guitarist Steven Tyson, whose versatile shredding defined their sound. Mush first earned attention with their 2017 single “Alternative Facts,...

The truth can be hard to come by these days, but Mush are beyond trying to spell it out for us. Just a year on from their convincing debut mission statement, '3D Routine', the Leeds art-rock trio’s witty and politicised rhetoric has wasted little time to resurface, this time addressing institutionalised collusion and the unbated spread of so-called ‘fake news’ that continues to infect headlines and newsfeeds worldwide. A tightly worded manifesto against misinformation, the band’s swift follow-up, 'Lines Redacted' ignores the cotton-wooled pleasantries and preaches straigh...

Taken from their forthcoming second album, 'Lines Redacted'.