They are a bit rounder, a lot less hirsute, but the five comrades who make up this Anglo-US combo return to the studio for the first time in more than a decade with the same shambolic twanging gusto and noisy sense of outrage.
As the Bloodshot website puts it, the Waco Brothers have been “standing at the corner of punk urgency and Three-Chords-And-The-Truth country for 20 years now”. In truth there is probably more of the former at play with the spirit of The Clash particularly evident.
Jon Langford, of seminal British band The Mekons, and friends enjoy snacking on “the hand that feeds you”, as the title track puts it, and certainly the music carries a raucous, infectious energy.
The pick of the bunch is a ringing cover of the Small Faces classic All or Nothing – a suitable anthem for a bunch of engaging, ageing lefties.
