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The latest album from Mick Collins and crew is like a graphic album on the general theme of future dystopia: it has artwork by underground comix illustrator Gary Panter; the lyrics of ‘Leopardman At C&A’ were originally written by Alan Moore for Bauhaus but have now been set to music by Mick; and the songtitles maintain the theme with ‘La Fin Du Monde’ (Mick singing in French) and a cover of Dead Moon’s psych-punk ‘Fire in the Western World’. But while a concept album is an unlikely move for the Dirtbombs, it’s still full of their trademark fire and grit. There are a couple of straight garage tunes in the fuzz-lashed ‘It’s Not Fun Until They See You Cry’ and the full-on melodic ‘Ever Lovin’ Man’ but they keep garage music fresh by mixing it up: some hip-hop on ‘Pretty Princess Pay’, a touch of garage-glam on the cover of Sparks’ ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and then Mick migrates from the Motor City to the Steel City for the Cabaret Voltaire-style pitch-shifting electronica of ‘Race to the Bottom’. If the theme of the record is George Bush’s war on freedom, then the Dirtbombs are on the side of the righteous; witness Mick’s defiant cry to “let your freak flag fly high”.
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