Mekons - Horror - Limited Edition Red Vinyl

Mekons - Horror - Limited Edition Red Vinyl

Legendary postmodern, post punk, post human, past caring collective Mekons return with a brand-new album for 2025.

Their first release on Fire Records, ‘Horror’ a collection of songs written in late 2022 but providing a horribly prescient reflection of the world in its current miasma and how we got here. 

Sounding like The Chills and R.E.M circa the I.R.S Records years, ‘Mudcrawlers’ sees just about the whole band joining Jon Langford on vocals speaking of Irish famine and refugees journeying to Wales. ‘War Economy’ shivers in the cold of such Boroughs spiked one-liners: “Clinical coercion will not achieve dominance!” Sounding like its straight off a Jenny Holzer neon sign (she of Abuse Of Power Comes As No Surprise), it’s held together by a disgruntled swaggering riff that underpins an explosion of disquiet. 

"Effortlessly eloquent post-punks"
Pitchfork
“The Mekons are still vital”
Rolling Stone
“The most revolutionary group in the history of rock ‘n’ roll,”
Lester Bangs

Label: FIRE RECORDS

Cat. No. FIRELP770C

TRACKLIST

A1 The Western Design
A2 Sad and Sad and Sad
A3 Glasgow
A4 Fallen Leaves
A5 War Economy
A6 Mudcrawlers
            
B1 A Horse Has Escaped
B2 Private Defense Contractor
B3 Sanctuary
B4 Surrender
B5 You're Not Singing Any More
B6 Before The Ice Age