Raised On Rock

Keeping with the penchant for pseudonyms bordering on the presposterous, the Large Mound players have christened themselves Anthony, The Boy Mark, James and Six Cans for a Fiver. Raised On Rock is their blink-and-you’ll-miss-at-least-half-the-album debut, shoehorning 11 tracks into less than half an hour.

“It’s not like I don’t want to go to work but I’d rather be out rocking” (‘Rather B Rockin’) could be construed as the key to Large Mound’s wonderfully sloppy rock manifesto. Growling guitars buzz over scattershot drums and rumbling drums, sounding all the more strange complimented with a plaintive vocal delivery and a minimum of shouting. Except for ‘Piece Of Piss’ , hollering “I’ve never been as scared as this/Even going to work, the Leaving Cert, seems like a piece of piss” and the final sonic trash of ‘Everyone’s Got One’.

This primal pop punk that hasn’t lost its sense of humour and sounds all the more special for it.