Not as radio-friendly as Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday, nor as lo-fi as I Become Small and Go, On The Speakers falls between the two extremes.
In addition to the synthesized percussion, you get chunky, jaggedly-distorted guitar, clanging, lurching percussion, and even some distortion on the vocals.
Blues rock mutated into proto-metal via burned-over psychedelia, the bad acid wah-wah pedal just post ’68, packed tight, giving you your bong-load’s worth.
Over the years, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood has expanded his “ead guitarist role into a gaggle of duties, from radio static dude to theremin guy to xylophonist.
A two-disc odds’n’sods compilation existing mostly to make available the tracks from the two out-of-print full-length albums, Jug Fulla Sun and Elusive Truth.
Almost 20 years running, Sick Of It All deliver every time. Life on the Ropes is no different, except maybe that it pushes the band’s darker material to the forefront.