15 that’s 15 I said!, can you believe Dwarves have released that many albums, well read it and weep my friends, Jenkem is yes the, did I already say this, the fifteenth studio album from a band that give the word eclectic a whole new persona. Bringing genres together and tearing them apart sometimes, this is a raucous thrash, this pure sing-a-long, this is punk glam, but most of all this is DWARVES! at their glorious best again.
When someone says to you “which is your favourite Dwarves album” I normally say it’s the last one, simply because that’s the only way you can respond, every album is so different and normally so good, saying the current one is kind of a cop out, because picking is genuinely impossible. Where do you start when asked to review an album who’s title is an hallucinogenic drug made from fermented piss and shit, well you say for a start that the result outweighs the origins. This is (don’t quote me, I’m not checking) possibly Dwarves shortest album, it packs its knock out punches all in under 20 mins, but non the less great for it. Listening to a Dwarves album is always a lesson in self control, how do you go from the buzz saw of a song like ‘Drug Lust’ to the almost calm (I did say almost) serine sound of ‘Bad Drugs’ and not feel like you’re trippin’ a little. Oh and did you see that, a song from the band that spells out drugs can be bad, or at least some of them, yeah really.
What’s always very obvious when listening to an album from a band that have pretty much no comparatives in the musical world, yes you can pick one song on an album like say ‘Melania’ and hear the parody and say it has some Bowling For Soup lyrical traits, but then you then hit headlong into ‘Damned If I Do’ and feel like Bad Religion have rolled through town, but the long and the short of it is, Dwarves are of themselves, always have been and with this album release still are!! The album finishes with ‘Last Chance Lily’, now this is a song that in its own twisted way describes to me what this album has in spades, “Is she free tonight?, Now don’t be silly, Last Chance Lily, When you’re down on your luck, You should look her up”, these words spell out this album as Lily to me.
This is true punk rock at its most un-violent and yet violent, at its angry but un-angry, and it even comes with a cover that you can share without being banned from every social media outlet, now there’s a bonus.
Jenkem is out now via Greedy Records and you can check out Dwarves on Facebook and visit their website here (if you dare)
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