“Everything that made V-Boys a special force in post-punk cranked up to 11.”
“Viagra Boys embark on their most adventurous outing to date with excellent results on Cave World”
“a grimy time capsule of a truly bizarre era”
“Viagra Boys find themselves in a bind: on the one hand, they write songs that revel in the indulgences of yesteryear’s rock’n’roll cliché; on the other, they exist at a time when the romanticism of those supposed glory days has been overtaken by the clear-eyed reality check that such decadence was achieved at some moral and ethical expense. The Stockholm five-piece’s second album, 2021’s Welfare ”
“Satirizing the mindset of the alt-right internet troll requires more gravitas than these Swedish punks can pull off consistently. But what Cave World lacks in bite, it tends to make up for in groove.”
