Who knew such a collage of Indie rock, electronic beats, and lyrics of substance would blend so effortlessly? Perth and Glasgow have studio recorded an album with 10 songs for the Nuclear Club, addressing crucial topics like environment, loneliness, and old-fashioned ideas. This album goes down as their fourth album ‘Black Cats Are Bad Luck’. It is a good start when the song “Black Cats Are Bad Luck” engages with a fast beat combined with lyrics that speak of an activist group trying to sabotage a fox hunt. The energy and message it conveys allow this song to start strong, followed by “Hexavalent Chromium”, which provides an eerie melody filled with dark guitar riffs combined with lyrics of industrial pollution and its damaging impact.
Then there is “Lightning Spike”, which shines a light on urban decay and ruins. Accompanied with synthesizers that sound far away combined with the beat of lively drums, the song achieves the perfect mood. While “The Promise Of Plastic” sheds light on inventions that were once considered groundbreaking and shifts attention to problems that arise from them, the song goes on to combine catchy beats with lyrics that make you think. Containing the songs “Skeleton Fantasy Show” and “It Rests”, which examine the sensation of being Alienated from society, the album allows more instrumentation, like a synth to be incorporated but then allows the bass and drums to supplement a bass ground to the songs.
“Classical Spaceflight” is meant to provoke a chuckle with its vocal sharpness cleverly blended into upbeat tempos and musical styles, as it explores the life of the elite – the wealthy. “Paternoster” narrates the story of old-fashioned devices, it sounds extremely evocative of the relevant themes. The closing track, “Preternature” combines ethereal sound synthesis and a cynical take on avarice and excess. For the mix of music and the complexity of themes, the album ‘Black Cats Are Bad Luck’ is equally superb. Nuclear Club has released an album necessary for every indie rock enthusiast.
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