"Black Tongue"

Those Poor Bastards are back with a new album. "Howdy Creeps, We've finished a new record called "Black Tongue". This album is unadorned, unpolished and ugly. We've stripped everything back to the infected bone, and left the untreated wound to fester. The shackles of modern recording fidelity have been cast aside and the mystery of busted and broken music has emerged triumphant." As always, there's something for everyone. You can pre-order the album on limited edition vinyl (115 purple w/silver splatter, 100 gold swirl, 100 red, 11 transition colors, 8 black), cassette (50 copies) and CD. What can we expect? Those Poor Bastards are known for good consistent quality, but their last three albums have been a hit and miss. From the product declaration on Bandcamp: "Black Tongue is Those Poor Bastards at their most scorched-earth, mud-caked, and downright broken. Lonesome Wyatt and The Minister peel back every last layer of polish until only the rust and rot remain. The instrumentation is sparse and uneasy. It crackles with warped tape hiss, creaking boards, and the ghost-hum of bad wiring. The songs feel unearthed rather than written, like cursed field recordings found in a burned-out shack at the edge of nowhere. Things haven't sounded this bad in years." If the album is half as good as the copywriting then we have something to look forward to.