Mudhoney
Digital Garbage (Loser Edition)
Release Date: 09/28/2018
Format: LP
Label: Sub Pop
Release type: Loser Edition Green Sea Foam Vinyl LP Release
Vinyl LP pressing housed in a gatefold sleeve, includes digital download. Since the late '80s, Mudhoney - the Seattle-based foursome whose muck-crusted version of rock, shot through with caustic wit and battened down by a ferocious low end - has been a high-pH tonic against the ludicrous and the insipid. Digital Garbage opens with the swaggering "Nerve Attack," which can be heard as a nod both to modern-life anxiety and the ever-increasing threat of warfare. The album's title comes from the outro of "Kill Yourself Live," which segues from a revved-up Arm organ solo into a bleak look at the way notoriety goes viral. Arm says: "people really seem to find validation in the likes-and then there's Facebook Live, where people have streamed torture and murder, or, in the case of Philando Castile, getting murdered by a cop. In the course of writing that song, I thought about how, once you put something out there online, you can't wipe it away. It's always going to be there-even if no one digs it up, it's still out there floating somewhere."
- Nerve Attack
- Paranoid Core
- Please Mr. Gunman
- Kill Yourself Live
- Night and Fog
- 21st Century Pharisees
- Hey Neanderf***
- Prosperity Gospel
- Messiah's Lament
- Next Mass Extinction
- Oh Yeah