“a bracing dose of reality and their best album yet”
“In the Christian folk tale, Eve was fashioned from Adam’s superfluous rib. Sleaford Mods think we’re all spare ribs: canon fodder, expendable in the eyes of a government that responded too weakly, too late, to the pandemic. The ruling class, Jason Williamson suggests, perennially sacrifice the powerless to feed GDP. If that’s the cheery take-home at the heart of Sleaford Mods’ sixth album, the ea”
“In the midst of a global catastrophe, the British duo gives the gift of ordinary irritation”
“Sleaford Mods remain caustic, but with renewed freshness, ready to take on the world again”
“It’s been nearly six years since I was first captivated by Sleaford Mods on Jools Holland. One man pressed the spacebar of a laptop and a gritty instrumental spewed out while he stood gently swaying with a pint in his hand. The other bloke cracked out fierce lines about being a jobseeker. In 2020 Sleaford Mods present Spare Ribs, a testament to the entirely contradictory facts that they’ve grown a”
“The Mods' penchant for getting so much out of so little hasn't carried over to Spare Ribs.”
