Pigsx7 by Ania Shrimpton
Øya Festival 2023 is to be held between August 8th-12th.
Pigsx7, Roisin Murphy and the new Wednesday co-headliner Lorde are some of the latest additions to this year’s Øya Festival.
Pigsx7 are out on the road and just back from SXSW after the release of their Land Of Sleeper album – praised by Live4ever as the band’s, ‘most compact but enjoyable chapter so far‘:
“Wisely perhaps however they’ve now at least dispensed with the gargantuan running times of some of their early material, delivering more focused alchemy.”
There’s even a track here – the furious dandruff raising punk of Mr. Medicine – that runs to less than 2-and-a-half minutes, singer/keyboardist Matt Baty showering it with his distinctive growl, a rasp that always sounds like it’s ready to spit fire.
“As you may have guessed, subtlety is at one level for the birds, but although the gamboling opener Ultimate Hammer was, according to guitarist Adam Ian Sykes, the bastard creative son of, ‘being trapped in the house and listening to too much ZZ Top’, the familiar mighty and distinctive groove takes hold gradually but in the end completely.”
