Album Review: Constant Supply, Isn't Life Great

Loved by the likes of indie demigod Steve Lamacq and currently the unsuspecting darlings of the airwaves, this Letterkenny four-piece have been turning plenty of heads of late. Their third album is sure to make many more craniums spin Linda Blair-style, as it sees these sonic magpies soar to new heights. A proverbial roller-coaster ride, the album could serve as a soundtrack to a plunge into the abyss – indeed, the further into the record you go, the darker and more disorienting things become.

Fuelled, I suspect, by a steady diet of Captain Beefheart, Radiohead, Jesus Lizard and latter-day Murder City Devils, Isn’t Life Great is a glorious and unrelenting headfuck. Pleasingly prickly and obtuse from start to finish, the band’s kitchen-sink ethos makes for a weird but often wonderful listening experience. Highlights include the bass-driven, sci-fi prog opera ‘Let’s Cross The Rubicon,’ the sax and jazz-peppered ‘The Misanthropic Phase’ and the delightfully unsettling ‘Alas, Hoodwinked’ – which is best described as a twisted take on a Burt Bacharach love song. Constant Supply are something else!

Out now.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4bsK2er9X2mcfWmibDubf1