Brilliant new one from Londoners
Miraculous Mule today announced details of their new “heavyweight” album Two Tonne Testimony via Vive Le Rock. The album will be released on 24 March (CD/Vinyl/Digital) via Muletone Recording Company/Bronzerat.
The announcement follows yesterday’s unveiling of the brand new video for Where Monsters Lead via its premiere onGigslutz, who described it as “1984-esque”. Lyrically as well as visually its a warning cry for our dark political times. As frontman/guitarist Michael J Sheehy explains: “We wrote the song two years ago in response to the rise of the far right we were witnessing throughout Europe and now it feels like we’re living through a waking nightmare.”
Miraculous Mule is a London trio consisting of Michael J Sheehy (guitar/vocals), his brother Patrick McCarthy (bass/vocals) along with childhood friend Ian Burns (drums). Two Tonne Testimony is the bands second album following the critically acclaimed debut album Deep Fried (2013) and the mini-album Blues Uzi (2014). The trio have taken knife-edged blues, gospel-driven rock ‘n’ roll, and elements of psychedelic soul and stoner/space rock to create a collection of songs for living in troubled times.
Written and recorded over the past two years, the album’s themes are proving to be prescient for the shape of the world in 2017. Sound of the Summer starts out as a paean to long, hot sunny days and sticky nights before morphing into a song about civil unrest and the death of protest. The aforementioned Where Monsters Lead was written in response to the rise of far-right demagogues two years before the likes of Trump, Farage and their supporters led us off the edge of a cliff. Daddy Grace calls to mind the conniving ways of a snake- oil salesmen, while They Cut, We Bleed attacks the political establishment for a policy that has everything to do with ideology and nothing to do with bringing down the deficit. For the title track, Sheehy spins a rollercoaster yarn casting himself as a gun-running, drug-dealing, porn-peddling son of Satan who wanders through a world populated by heavily armed outlaw relatives and a religious cult that commits mass suicide. Holy Fever tells a tale of religious hysteria, in which a horny young man finds himself cock-blocked by none other than Jesus Christ.
This album draws on substance, humour and soul to deliver a visceral, angry commentary for bleak times. It’s rock ‘n’ roll as salvation!
TRACKLIST:
1. Holy Fever
2. Shave ‘Em Dry!
3. Sound of The Summer
4. Where Monsters Lead
5. Daddy Grace
6. Two Tonne Testimony
7. They Cut We Bleed
8. The Fear
9. We Know About Cha
10. Blues Uzi (The Reprisal)
Pre-order Two Tonne Testimony now via Bronze Rat Records’ website
