Credits:

The Wedding Present

Description:

The Wedding Present’s second proper studio album, Bizarro cut down a bit on the frenetic jangle the band was known for in its early days and replaced it with healthy doses of darkness and power. Adding some fuzzy, crunchy distortion to give the guitars some hefty impact, slowing the tempos down to speeds that allow vocalist David Gedge to squeeze more heartbroken despair and bleak sarcasm out of every line, and generally upping their game in every way, the album is the fullest realization of the Wedding Present’s sound yet. Leading off with the unstoppably hooky “Brassneck,” which features a brilliant Gedge reading of lines that rhyme “grow up” and “throw up,” the album plays like a collection of thematically related singles. The most single-y among them is “Kennedy,” which has some brilliant singalong lyrics and an intensely dramatic guitar strum buildup that crescendos into a maelstrom