Welfare Jazz

AlbumJan 08 / 202113 songs, 40m 21s
Post-Punk Art Punk
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7.2 / 10

The subversively sleazy Stockholm post-punk band walks a delicate satirical line between provocation and trolling.

8 / 10

8 / 10

Viagra Boys remain a determined and confidently riotous force on Welfare Jazz

The Stockholm band traverse musical dissonance, country and western, "being an asshole", leaning into the madness of the modern era

A document of a band that are perhaps more in limbo than they might first appear.

Passenger (Mike Rosenberg) offers a breakup album with nothing new to say, while Viagra Boys are full of ideas on their new record

A country love story told the only way Viagra Boys know how for the Swedish punks second album. Read our review.

8 / 10

Viagra Boys have aggressively explored their past struggles, negative habits and self-defeats. Life as a musician is a road filled with temp...

Stockholm post-punk heroes Viagra Boys are back with their sophomore record Welfare Jazz, continuing their brand of satirical, horn-filled, searing rejection of standard genre tropes to deftly lay waste to society’s normalisation of toxic masculinity, xenophobia, classism, and self-obsession.

8.0 / 10

Swedish post-punks Viagra Boys populated the band’s 2018 debut Street Worms with liars, cheaters, and junkies, mimicking its worst aspects of hyper-masulinity with a dark comedic approach and a sardonic wit.

8 / 10

“We are the creatures down at the bottom” howls singer Sebastian Murphy midway through the latest filth-encrusted offering from Viagra Boys, a

7 / 10

Stockholm punks Viagra Boys are characteristically funny, sardonic and incisive on their blistering new album Welfare Jazz

8.5 / 10

Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys album review by Leslie Chu. The Swedish band forthcoming release comes out on January 8, via YEAR0001

Expanding on their pulverising visions of lowlifes and inadequates, Viagra Boys’ second just about avoids caricature<br><br>

80 %

Album Reviews: Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz

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3.5 / 5

Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz review: Post punk, jazzy saxophones and some lines of speed.

Stockholm punks impress with heart and musical range on their second album. Review by Thomas H Green.

8 / 10