Following December’s U Ok Hun? EP Blackpool trio Those Fucking Snowflakes are back with Straight Wealthy White Male Suffrage, another salvo of noisy guitars, bass and drums railing against everything from Donald Trump to those who continue to pointlessly questions veganism.
Only Weak Men Fear Strong Women starts the record off as it means to go on continuing where their last release left off.
Structurally the chorus here should be full on singalong stuff but, given the band aren’t afraid to use some slightly more complex phrasing, I’m not sure it would quite work that in practice.
Boris Johnson And The Big Red Bus Of Bullshit once again wears its heart on its sleeve, so to speak, and sees the band exploring some slightly new sonic areas with some nicely contrasted slower sections that make the angry and loud parts all the more effective.
Across the whole record the band seem as happy employing raging noise rock as they do getting heavier or slower when needed to great effect and, within that, they add a nice dose of fun which stops the whole thing becoming a po-faced rant that, whether I agree with it or not (its probably no surprise I pretty much do), could easily get a bit boring.
The highlight of the EP for me comes with Meat Is Murder But Morrissey’s A Dickhead which is a terrific blast of noise punk before Carnibores deals with a loosely related topic with a slightly different musical approach that joins the rest of the record in creating an impassioned angry barrage with brains behind it.
The record closes with Tangerine Pirate Of The NHS that once again shows the band’s fondness and expert use of the word ‘dickhead’ (as first heard on Stop Being Dickheads To Each Other) in its chorus making this another highlight and backing up my previous point about lyrics that should be singalong but maybe won’t quite stick that way at an actual gig.
In all then Straight Wealthy White Male Suffrage is another terrific and powerful rant of a record doing its best to tear into the establishment while never losing a sense of entertainment which honestly makes it all the more powerful and listenable and I already look forward to hearing the band sing about the (as I write) currently happening ‘counter protests’ against the anti-racist protests in London and around the world.
