wimps - City Lights [Blue LP]

Youth Riot Records

£39.58

Format: LP, Blue
Catalogue No.: YRR064LPBLUE
Barcode: 5054960039636
Release Date: 01 Dec 2023
Genre: Pacific Northwest Punk

wimps are at it again with City Lights, another slacker punk moshterpiece ready for the internet to gobble up.

wimps’ first album since 2018.
Cut at 45 RPM.
Via Light In The Attic. Non-Returnable.

Lead singer and composer Rachel Ratner offers stark and playful wordage melding minimalist hooky riffage to cover such prescient topics as the rise of ubiquitous ai (Mind Reader); loneliness, growing inequality, and the loss of community and self (City Lights); a yearning for a return to a feral past (Animal); pollution and climate terrorism (Lake Washington), creating life (Mom) and promising a maybe undeliverable hope to that life during an unceasing pandemic (Morning), among other daily mundanity. Dave Ramm is the drummer and Matt Nyce plays bass.
Indeed, wimps’ City Lights may well stand as an artifact of humanity in a time of increasingly glossed and flawed expression. An imperfect, live, energetic, human statement made by 3 imperfect, mostly alive, yet rapidly deteriorating early 40s bit players of various Seattle whos and whats of a time long ago and soon to be forgotten. City Lights is a collection of solid classic wimps bops from stop to finish.

Tracklist: City Lights , Animal , Fits , Mindreader , Lake Washington , Big Dipper , Never Leave the House , Rutt , Doing It , Gravity , Mom , Lonely , Morning