It had escaped my attention that the might mclusky, Welsh lords of smartassery and noise rock, had reunited and released a new record in 2025. That is, until the blogging Voltron known as Jokonky mentioned it in their Comeback Special 2025 post a few weeks back. So I dutifully ran out to my local purveyor of new CD's and vinyl, picked up the specially-order K-pop Christmas gift for the missus, and plunked down an additional $14.99 plus tax for the pleasure of mclusky's fourth full-length, "The World Is Still Here And So Are We". If I'd been more patient, I could have waited for Bandcamp Friday and made sure the band/label got all the dollars. But it's a mitzvah to kick your local retailer some bread, especially when they track down a limited edition version of a CD you've already bought your wife twice. You gotta get her that mini figure.
Ahem.
"The World..." is still growing on me, but it was inspiration to then dump my entire mclusky archive onto my phone and get my dick pounded into mush by noise rock over the next week plus. I claim no mega fandom, only a great respect for a band I'm pretty salty I never got to see live. And why not share an out-of-print EP for my friends' listening pleasure? Surely, they also enjoy the occasional genital destruction via rock tuneage. So here's the 4-song "To Hell With Good Intentions", the title track of which appeared on the all-timer "mclusky Does Dallas". The other three songs also appear on the 3-disc limited version of "mcluskyism". I invite you, should you have a spare copy, to send it my way as a Christmas gift, Kwanzaa present, Tet treat, or any other excuse to send me music in the post.
Anyway, go snag that new mclusky record, fam. It's well worth the price of admission.
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