24-7 Rock Star Shit
Not many British alt-rock contemporaries boasted the fanbase enjoyed by the Jarman brothers across their first six studio albums and 13 years. Number seven feels like a gift to that heartland support: a record that brilliantly distills the band’s scrappy energy and marks a reunion with Nirvana engineer Steve Albini. Nirvana themselves are summoned on standout “Rainbow Ridge,” while the rawness bleeding from tracks like “Year of Hate” and “Deandrophobia” points towards a band still loaded with intent.
Time machines may not exist, but The Cribs’ 24-7 Rock Star Shit sure feels like a trip back to the bone-crushing rock of the 1990s.
Loud, angry, booming and raw, sounding more like first takes than anything even remotely considered "studio polished."
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During the mid-noughties, the Cribs brought punk theatrics to the UK’s indie scene – vocalist Ryan Jarman roly-polying on to a table of glassware at the 2006 NME awards being perhaps the most notorious example.
24-7 Rock Star ShitArtist: The CribsGenre: RockLabel: Sonic BlewWith the 10-year anniversary tour of their beloved third album, Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs Whatever, still ringing in their ears, it would have been tempting for The Cribs to try to recapture former glories, but instead the band have decided to go back to basics.24-7 Rock Star Shit discards the poppier elements of 2015's For All My Sisters in favour of the tougher side of the Jarman brothers' unvarnished truth.