So this week’s ‘single’ of the week is an album (because I can do what I want and fuck you!). I’ve only listened to this LP the whole way through twice so I won’t be able to give a very good or exhaustive description of the entire album, but I felt like I had to mention it this week because I can’t stop thinking about the way it sounds.

You can pick up straight away that its tones are quite weird and deranged but the album doesn’t sound too sharp or abrasive to me; it’s definitely easy-listening but more in a way that’s intriguing to the ear, like something disgusting in a horror movie you can’t help but stare at. Its cohesiveness partly lends itself to the very consistent and precise punk drumming, and also to the simplicity and repetitiveness of the chord changes in tracks like Juicy Fruit Dream – as with most punk, it’s not what is done that is so enthralling and interesting but how it’s done. And Murderer show in this LP that they can sort of appeal and repulse the senses at the exact same time.

Songs like I Did It All For You and Piece of Candy sounds (and feel) just like a nightmare I would have as a kid, and I know it sounds a bit niche but if I’m more specific, they remind me of the unending black sky over a motorway with barely anyone on it. The distortion, vocals and the constant metal bin lid snare is all obviously a bit creepy, but it’s the snatches of cleaner notes in tracks like You and Me which is what gives Murderer’s sound such a disjointed and disturbing edge.

There’s loads more to say about the tinkly music-box intermissions tracks (four of them called Perfect), the mixtures and contrasts of pace and the workings-in of strangely deadpan psychobilly, but I want to end off on saying that this LP is impossible to stop listening to. From beginning to end this album is ace and I cannot recommend you listen to it enough.