#hyper with u

I woke up this morning feeling really anxious!! New Cruelster (nee PERVERTS AGAIN) continue to deliver their timely, sinister, neanderthal stomp. It’s their COVID song, folks, and we all knew it was coming! The lyrics are typical Alex Ward, the master of ripping the facade off of every day banalities to expose the creepy crawly reality of humanity that lurks beneath the surface. How strange it is to be anything at all, eh? These folks have been making a gem of a tv show called LITTLE LIONS DEN as well, propelling characters honed on their WRUW radio show into a disturbing talk show format replete with suburban slime and absurdities. All in all, this single is just what I would expect from ‘ the kids who brought you perverts again’ and it sounds remarkably like their Total Punk single “My Accident”. I’ve always enjoyed the layered talking (rather than singing) that they utilize throughout their universe (I think at this point it is fair to call it a universe) and this track is no exception. Hopefully the album packs a bigger punch than this single, which is good but certainly is resting on the formula they’ve well established. Something in my gut says it will, these folks have yet to release anything short of fantastic.