Album Assessment
Your Heterosexual Violence
Some Folks Have Too A lot To Say
CD/ DL/ Vinyl
Launched right now 26 September 2025
(5/5)
The Band That Time Forgot / The Band That Forgot the Time… and went to the pub for 40 years. Debut album by Punk/Publish-Punk band who shaped within the 1980’s and have lastly acquired their shit collectively due to the inspirational Jemma Freeman – It’s a remarkably contemporary, humorous, unusual, sonically & lyrically sensible album, nearly as good as, if not higher than something by a lot youthful present bands… says Ged Babey.
That is my favorite album of the 12 months.
And it’s not simply due to the back-story, it’s every part about it: the weird songs, the frenetic music, the fabulous manufacturing, the characterful vocals, the number of types… every part has a familiarity about it nevertheless it sounds (and is) model new. I really like this album. (Be goal! – I’m boss, actually)
Each tune is totally different – aside from two that begin with precisely the identical jagged riff. Life, loss of life, love, psychological well being, alienation, existentialism are all coated within the songs, but they’re comedian, tragic, stuffed with pathos and a life-affirming vitality, individualism and self-belief.
Opening with the ragged-trousered pop tune, the Camus-inspired Home Outdoors The World lulls the listener right into a false sense of safety. It was the primary single and a considerate piece of carrier-bag-man existential pop-punk. And oddly, it’s an antithetical Teenage Kicks for Dour OAP Punks!
The album begins correct with the coruscating noise and ranted greetings of The Plan. A manifesto that seems like early Sonic Youth channelling the Mekons fronted by a (Buddhist) Rik Mayall (within the function of Grasp of Ceremonies)
Women and gents / And Transgender Neutrals / It’s good to be with you / Hope the sensation is mutual. / We’re the mighty Your Heterosexual Violence. / That is our Dharma / We hope you adore it / And when you don’t / You may fuck off and shove it…
Yep, there’s a parallel with ‘We’re the Fall’ as a declamatory introduction.
The unsentimental lyrical sentiment of Valentines Day recollects Gang of 4’s Pure’s Not In It. Or Orwell’s 1984 maybe. However the chord sequence is pure Stooges/Lifeless Boys.
That is the brand new sobriety / Your carefree days are over / The Nice Society / Dream Machine lies / Tramples your unconscious want / We should maintain our distance / It’s not pure to look / It’s not pure to smile / It’s not pure to the touch / It’s not pure to carry / It’s not pure to kiss / It’s not pure / To fall in love.
The second single follows, contradictorily in content material, Love Will, which I coated right here. It’s the funniest, most light-weight tune on the album – a figuring out parody with an enormous Cramps affect however the guitar is extra Void-oids and the enjoying phenomenal – and actually it’s bassist Jemma Freeman swopping over to their most important instrument.
The video fully destroys my makes an attempt to persuade you that My Heterosexual Violence are a ‘severe’, lost-post-punk band…
Outdated Boys Simply Wanna Have Enjoyable! Brian O’Brien is the vampiric love-child of Max Wall and Keith Richards and the digicam loves him.
The batch of songs written within the early 1980’s and re-worked are maybe on the coronary heart of this album. Two of them (appear to) characteristic acts of self-immolation: Man in Flames (At C&A) and The Boy Who Had 10,000 Dad and mom – the latter of which appeared on the legendary Talk!!! album.
The Boy Who... tells the story of a bullied, disturbed pyromaniac orphan shunted round foster-homes who wreaks a horrible revenge on his tormentors… however is instructed in expressionistic rhyme in a Stephen Berkoff/ Russian literature kinda type. It’s a surprising piece, which can sound ‘very ’80’s’ however to me doesn’t appeared to have dated because the character appears obsessed together with his personal press protection.
One other older tune is equally darkish but theatrically tragi-comic: Simply One Of These Issues ends with a wrist-slashing suicide of a spurned loner. Musically essentially the most fantastic factor on the album, what I initially thought was saxophone is in truth violin which one way or the other makes it sound like 808 States Pacific State crossed with the Psychedelic Furs Sister Europe! The O’Brien/Freeman twin vocal in direction of the tip is heartbreaking: It shouldn’t finish this fashion, it shouldn’t finish this fashion / I solely wished her to remain…
Wintershowtime dismisses sexual exploitation and leisure consumerism and is ‘private/political punk’ which spans the a long time and proves that the trick of double-speeding the second half of a tune all the time works.
Altering The Topic, which begins with similar noise/riff/suggestions because the Plan earlier than taking a Silverfish-like detour is punk rock majesty. Half means via in one other MES type apart Brian sings ‘Anyway, altering the topic..’ as if it’s essentially the most pure factor to say in a tune.
Tune From The Backside Of My Coronary heart and I Might Be With You are real-life relationship songs slightly than ‘love songs’. The primary a contact of Different TV type reggae a couple of failing marriage with some nice traces direct from the 1970’s when the expression gas-lighting hadn’t be coined… You attempt to inform me that he didn’t screw you / I suppose that he noticed proper by way of you. And the passive aggressive, You wish to know when you’re forgiven? / I’m not too positive, I used to be not listening. Kitchen-sink drama yet one more string to the Your Heterosexual Violence bow.
I Might Be With You is the closest to a standard love tune YHV get however as an alternative of romanticizing New Orleans or Paris it’s set in a extra life like than idealistic location: I could possibly be with you / residing up in Crewe, and I might work on the railways… Jemma who shares vocals and sings backing on most tracks performs the a part of the accomplice brilliantly displaying their appearing abilities, as they reject ‘a man I met at a book-signing’ for our hero.
No Search Outcomes (for Weatherman On Medicine) is a unbelievable nearer and one in every of two songs that embrace the album title Some individuals have an excessive amount of to say (the opposite being Man in Flames (at C&A)). Half nonsense poem and half existential lament it’s only a factor of magnificence on an album which is filled with noise and tragi-comic rage and only a nice ending, the place the band calm down right into a musicality and manner that’s extra what individuals would expect-of musicians their age.
Andy Ramsays manufacturing and the invaluable enter from Hammond participant Simon Birch, violinist Maris Peterlevics and sax participant Steve Hamilton are an enormous a part of the album sounding so nice, and regardless of my fixed comparisons to different bands, so distinctive.
Like all band, they’re solely nearly as good as their drummer and Andi Panayi is a unbelievable musician – extra a jazz drummer than a rock drummer if you already know what I imply.
It is a band whose contemporaries again within the 80’s included Poison Ladies, The Nightingales, Different TV, The Three Johns, Tv Personalities… and it’s as if they’ve emerged from suspended animation and been introduced again to life and updated by Freeman – a visionary transfer and labour of affection, for which the remainder of the band are eternally indebted to them. (Jem will probably be impressed that I’m getting their pronouns proper…for as soon as!).
Realistically, until Gideon Coe, Stewart Lee and Alexis Petridis all get onboard, this album isn’t gonna promote 1,000,000 and make the band well-known, but when a number of dozen, 100 or extra individuals, ‘get it’ and get as a lot pleasure out of it as I’ve, nicely, job performed.
There are only some instances within the lifetime of a music obsessive while you suppose, ‘This Band Are Completely Fucking Wonderful – they’re MY PERFECT BAND’- the sort of band that I wished to be in after I was young-er (and even now I’m older)’ – a superbly flawed, superbly fucked-up band who one way or the other, by some fluke, or magic, acquired every part proper… and that is a kind of instances.
Some Folks Have Too A lot To Say isn’t simply an Album of the Week, and my favorite album of the 12 months. It’s an album that spans a long time, an album that’s the Previous, Current & Future mixed – and a day within the life/life in a day of songwriters Brian O’Brien and Dodd David (and their comrades) and their untapped heterosexual violence eradicated and changed into fabulous inventive expression…
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2025/26 Reside Dates:
05 Oct – London – Lexington (matinee) w/ The Child Seals & Breakup Haircut
01 Nov – Salisbury – The Winchester Gate
22 Nov – Resonance FM Reside Session (Dexter Bradley Present)
23 Jan – Stoke Newington – The Ready Room
All phrases Ged Babey besides band quote in italics
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