“On their sophomore album, Viagra Boys tell a love story via punk eclecticism.”
“satirical post-punk bangers with a ‘yeehaw!’ spirit”
“Viagra Boys remain a determined and confidently riotous force on Welfare Jazz”
“The subversively sleazy Stockholm post-punk band walks a delicate satirical line between provocation and trolling.”
““We wrote these songs at a time when I had been in a long-term relationship, taking drugs every day, and being an asshole,” Viagra Boys’ American-born frontman Sebastian Murphy explains of the band’s upcoming album, Welfare Jazz. “I didn’t really realise what an asshole I was until it was too late, and a lot of the record has to do with coming to terms with the fact that I’d set the wrong goals fo”
“The second Viagra Boys album begins where the Swedish post-punk quintet’s debut, 2018’s Street Worms, left off: a churning, fuzzy bassline, sputtering electronics, and Sebastian Murphy declaiming in blackly comic fashion about his inadequacies: “I ain’t nice!” The whole point of Viagra Boys has appeared to be that they aren’t nice: live, they are pulverisingly intense, and Murphy – heavily tattooe”
