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Maximum Sorrow!
Desperate Journalist Maximum Sorrow!
Format: LP Type: Album
Labels: Fierce Panda
Release Year: 2021
EAN/UPC: 5023903286253
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We hear that post-punk made it into the springtime pages of The Sunday Times. Oh, DO keep up - Desperate Journalist have been raging against the corporate machine for what feels like aeons with their melodramatic blend of traumatised guitars and artbroken vocals. In fact, 'Massive Sorrow!' represents their fourth full album release in the six years since the devilish 'Desperate Journalist' debut appeared in 2015. Stroppy sophomore effort 'Grow Up' stormed out in 2017, while 2019 saw the search for the stellar 'The Search For The Miraculous' spread far and wide.

'Maximum Sorrow!', Desperate Journalist's thoroughly forthright fourth album, was recorded entirely in Crouch End in the midst of the Covid pandemic. 'Massive Sorrow!' is Desperate Journalist in hyper-dynamic form, super sleek, but never sickly slick; ambitious and expansive, but still self-effacingly DIY to the core. If the 'Maximum Sorrow!' title is punchy then the music ripples with alt.rock muscle built up over seven years of relentless gigging and releases, like a fierce panther on the prowl.

Driven along by Simon Drowner's ear-popping bassline, lead single 'Fault' finds the quartet in impeccably brutalist form, all banshee howls and self-lacerating lyrics from singer Jo Bevan: "And those teenage hangups are hard to beat / When your closet is piled up with defeat," she snaps at one especially prickly point, as alongside her guitarist Rob Hardy and drummer Caz Hellbent can only add fiery fuel to the sonic flamings. There are traditional desperate journeys to the heart of darkness - check the doomily concise disintegrations of 'Armageddon' for starters. And there are brilliantly-lit light touches: the swooning elegance of 'Utopia', the sardonic melody rushing sass of 'Personality Girlfriend', the madrigal calm of 'Formaldehyde', a tragic finale on any other album but the opener here.

Verily, this is the band with the child in its eyes. Kudos too to the spaciously epic choral thrustings of 'Everything You Wanted' and the spectacularly bittersweet yearnings of 'What You're Scared Of', strewn with scattered sugarcubes. Come the close Jo is lashing at the leash and howling, "And the trash all flutters / And you paint it with wings / And the shopfronts shuttered / And you're straining to sing / Was it worth it? Was it worth it?" Well, what do you think??

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