Suffering Jukebox

Nick

Monday

6:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Soundtracking your Monday morning with an eclectic mix of new music and old favourites, reviews, interviews and more. Email: sufferingjukebox@outlook.com / Instagram: @sufferingjukebox4zzz

 

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19 May, 2025

This morning's episode features an interview with Chloe from the brand new, local hardcore band I Have A Bomb. Check them out live this weekend at Bardon Hall on Friday 23rd May with Verminate, Lobotomy Girl and Lavender Threat and on Saturday 24th May at Coorparoo Hall with Human Condition, Flail, Verminate and Lavender Threat.

Nick's Pick of the Week is McLusky's The World Is Still Here And So Are We. You can hear the whole album in all the usual places, or purchase it here https://mcluskymclusky.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-is-still-here-and-so-are-we and my review can be read below.

McLusky: The Word Is Still Here And So Are We (Ipecac)

Released May 9th 2025

Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings is fast developing a reputation for releasing shockingly good come back albums from long-dormant noise rock bands. First, there was Rack by The Jesus Lizard, perhaps THE comeback record of 2024. Now, in 2025, they release —the aptly titled— The World Is Still Here And So Are We, McLusky’s first record in twenty-one years and a potential candidate for 2025’s comeback album of the year.

McLusky formed in Cardiff, England in 1996. Their lineup has frequently changed over the years, with the only constant member being vocalist and guitarist Andy Falkous. Despite calling it quits in 2005, the group have reformed sporadically since 2014 —in various incarnations— for occasional one off gigs and special causes. The World Is Still Here And So Are We is their first collection of new material since 2004’s The Difference Between Me and You Is that I'm Not on Fire.

Unpopular Parts Of The Pig opens the album, with two minutes and twenty seconds of abrasive, but bizarrely catchy, noise rock, setting the tone for the rest of the record. After twenty years of silence, the reformed McLusky know their strengths and they play to them, rarely deviating or straying off course. This isn’t a criticism, for there is enough sonic variation to keep new and old listeners entertained for the album’s half hour duration.

Chekhov’s Guns, one of the album’s pre-release singles, hits hard, nestled in the second half of the album, it’s all gritty, overdriven bass, punchy rhythms and jagged guitars. Elsewhere, The Battle Of Los Anglesea channels In Utero era Nirvana whilst Autofocus On The Prime Directive resembles the ramshackle swagger of The Birthday Party’s Junkyard. Ultimately though, McLusky can’t help but sound like themselves, distorted, derisive and (more than a little) deranged.

Comebacks can be difficult, the last thing any band returning from retirement wants to hear is, “Why did they even bother?” Thankfully, McLusky can rest easy knowing that their efforts have been well received; and with good reason. The World Is Still Here And So Are We may not reach the heights of the 2002 classic, McLusky Do Dallas, but it is remarkably solid album from a group who clearly have nothing left to prove, but plenty more to say.

Nick Stephan

Eric Bachmann Mercy 06:00:58
Patti SmithGloria 06:11:14

Monday Morning Mood Lifter

Warumpi BandFrom The BushAUS 06:17:27
Dead Pioneers (Feat. Petrol Girls)Love LanguageAUS 06:21:07
YearnsThe Ocean ArtefactLOCAL 06:27:04
Vanessa TomlinsonTo The SeafarerLOCAL 06:30:18
YirindaGuyu (Fish)LOCAL 06:37:12
Spirit LightsOpen HeartLOCAL 06:44:31
Electric Prawns 2HappyLOCAL 06:50:52
William TylerStar Of Hope 06:54:41
QuadeBlack Kites 07:03:13
MamuthonesBurn From Inside 07:11:34
KinskiStumbledown Terrace 07:23:43
Big'NArkansas Death Cult 07:37:14
MPTL MicroplasticsSex/Pol 07:45:02
Slug GutsAngieAUS 07:41:08
Blank Realm Violet DeliveryLOCAL 07:44:39
Spirit BunnySundayLOCAL 07:49:29
ShellacBilliard Player Song 07:54:34

Sad Song of the Week

LeakerPowder FingerLOCAL 08:03:28
Tape/OffFlat EarthersLOCAL 08:06:49
MasochistHeavy DreadLOCAL 08:19:30

Requested by Chloe from I Have a Bomb

WetworkMuttLOCAL 08:29:02

Requested by Chloe from I Have a Bomb

Press ClubDesolationAUS 08:31:26
RVGPet SemetaryAUS 08:38:07

Cover Me (Originally by The Ramones)

Sacred PawsSave Something 08:42:13
McLuskyChekhov's GunsThe World Is Still Here And So Are We 08:48:21

Nick's Pick

Tropical Fuck StormDunning Kruger's Loser CruiserAUS 08:51:43
Big|BraveInnominate No. VIII 08:57:52
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