Shooting at Unarmed Men

When the disbanding of Mclusky was announced earlier this year, punk turkeys were left wondering where to turn for a quality musical lampoon. The answer seems to be the first post-Mclusky project featuring ex-bassist (now guitarist) Jon Chapple. He continues to favour the high volume, atonal approach, but adds an element that Mclusky seemed to have been hinting at towards the end — a nascent tunefulness. Lo-fi, loud and heavily accented, Shooting at Unarmed Men often reproduce some of those lovely moments in early Wire records where pop mingles with menace in massively contradictory, but interesting ways.