The Plot Against Common Sense

On his latest for his post-Mclusky band, Andy Falkous still manages to serve up a healthy amount of bile, but some of his targets are questionable.

As heir apparent to a noisy, sarcastic, under-populated kingdom—The Jesus Lizard didn’t exactly leave a huge commercial hole in the music world—Future Of The Left probably has limited appeal. But the British band, led by former Mclusky-frontman Andrew Falkous, has quietly released three fantastically loud, surly…

The third album from Cardiff's most ferocious finds Andy Falkous on familiar barbed form, taking against popular culture with loud distortion as his weapon.

Brace yourself: Andy Falco has some things to get off his chest. The Plot Against Common Sense sees him exercise his caustic humour on a variety of irritants: trust fund rioters, false icons and the human race’s inherent fucked-ness, to name a few. Yet Falco saves his blackest ire for the hilariously unhinged Robocop 4 – Fuck Off Robocop; a howl from the edge of sanity directed squarely at Hollywood’s bilge pump (the one syphoning product from Michael Bay’s anus directly to your eyes). It’s both terrifying and spit-out-your-coffee funny.

Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense review: A biting dissection of modern society and popular culture.