REVIEW: THE AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN 'PISSDOGRAPHY' (GIVE PRAISE)

It's always a bit lame and patronising to make proclamations about a band's career trajectory (especially when you're talking about bands who probably don't have one). It widens that already oceanic gulf between people who sit on the internet writing about music, and people who actually get face first involved in music, but nevertheless Leeds' filthkickers The Afternoon Gentlemen have begun to take on the sort of feverishly received reputation of similar fast and grubby powerviolence outfits like Spoonful Of Vicodin and Lycanthropy.

Everyone either wants to see them or talk about how they want to see them, and then not bother.

Constantly touring mainland Europe where people care about such things, their 38-song 'Pissedography' (streamable below or on Bandcamp) captures their complete split and singles archive of table-thumping drum battery as it careens drunkenly through similar basement show territory to No Comment, Spazz and Despise You, all punkish clattering and euphoric, hungover groove parts. Production is rickety, but achieves that sought after balance, keeping things immediate and raw, dripping with sweat, White Ace and filter papers, without obscuring the actual tunes in an unwanted slurry of snare and reverb.