The microwave is on and disperses a funny smell of scorched plastic and an old type of oak wood. I push the button ‘Off’ and the microwave stops instantly, I open the viscous door and get electrocuted again; this should be the third time, I guess.
Yesterday I saw a dead frog on the corner of Unirea Boulevard. Didn’t know what to do with it. I took it from the fragile right foot and put it in a napkin that I found in the garbage. I didn’t want to leave the dead frog alone in the garbage, covered in a toilet-paper-like napkin. Didn’t know what to say to it. So I took it all covered in the paper and put it my right pocket. The frog stayed there for a few hours, while I was handling my own business in various places from the city. Back home, I took the frog out of the pocket and discovered that it’s greener then it was before. I don’t lie you. Here I was, watching a dead frog getting all green and alive, right in front of me.
There was no comfort in the frog’s resurgence. Its eyes were dull and unchanging. I could see a little move on one little leg, a discrete plash on its weird mouth, eyes winking in a certain moment and a few minutes later, after the dead frog woke up from the dark coma, I could hear little noises coming out of its mouth. There were some delicate bangs and arrhythmic dings and dongs.
The dead frog was singing, but all I could hear was one 'electronic munt minimalist' picture of modern-day austerity Britain. We don’t get what we ask for; we get what we deserved.
Sleaford Mods started out sometime during 2006, whilst Jason Williamson was living in Nottingham. Born out of part frustration and part accident, it quickly found its feet as an aggressive verbal onslaught on all that is contrived and connected to the day-to-day hammer of low paid employment and domestic situations. In 2009, Jason met Andrew Fearn. The Sleaford Mods became a duo.
Watch out for this new bloody good album, recently self-released on bandcamp, flowing like the best vanilla ice-cream you ever had on a hot august night at the beach. Join the metropolis of discontent !
Tracklist:
1 - Air Conditioning (2:26)2 - Tied Up in Nottz (2:40)
3 - A Little Ditty (2:32)
4 - You're Brave (2:45)
5 - Strike Force (2:49)
6 - The Corgi (2:35)
7 - From Rags to Richards (3:26)
8 - Liveable Shit (3:19)
9 - Under the Plastic and N.C.T. (3:17)
10 - Tiswas (3:12)
11 - Keep Out of It (2:59)
12 - Smithy (2:21)
13 - Middle Men (2:31)
14 - Tweet Tweet Tweet (3:02)