Cabbage performing @ Live At Leeds 2018 (Gary Mather / Live4ever)
Live4ever’s coverage from Live At Leeds 2018, courtesy of Gary Mather, continues today with Cabbage.
The band were close to home last weekend as they brought this year’s Nihilistic Glamour Shots debut album to the festival, one which has put the band up there with Shame, Idles and others in pushing a bitter social conscience back to the front of British independent music.
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“If you’re here for that you’ll be fine, but Nihlistic Glamour Shots also has a surprising number of layers,” we said of it. “On Exhibit A the band collectively proffer a staggering, perverse strain of country on which to hoist the zero-sum farce of modern politics on its own petard, whilst Perdubaro’s ramshackle post-punk sounds like it might fall apart at any minute, and Disinfect Us dices surf rock, desperation and menace like measures in a polemical cocktail.”
“Thus is the influence of Mark E. Smith measured from – dum, da, daaah – BEYOND THE GRAVE. What was and remains his gift is that people can see fit to reject everything around them which defines their generation, seek to personify it, ridicule it and make others question their values without ever asking a single question of their own. Closer Subhuman 2.0 reduces the pearl back to grit, a long, slow walk backwards that skews compromise into trivia.”