Dealing in clattering, angular garage-pop in the vein of Minutemen, The Replacements or the more accessible end of The Fall, South Wales-based The Bug Club deliver their magnum opus with “Rare Birds: Hour Of Song“. It’s an astonishing forty-seven tracks in length, many of them brief, spoken-word curios stitching together a loose ornithological narrative, and includes the singles ‘Marriage’ and ‘Short And Round’.
Sporting spoken-word storytelling, razor-toothed garage rock and delicately-assembled folk, the 47 tracks (all written in order of appearance) on The Bug Club’s latest album are an untainted burst of creativity with no backwards glances.
The Fat Angel Sings 