Ginger Wildheart - Teeth (2025) [FLAC] {Undergroove - UGCD087}
Release Info:
RLSDATE: 2025/12/13 RTLDATE: 2025/11/19
GENRE: Punk Rock SiZE: 221 MB
SOURCE: CD RUNTiME: 25:09
RiPPER: EAC 1.8 ENCODER: FLAC 1.5
DRiVE: ASUS SW-16D1X-U ORiGiN: UK
RELEASE: Undergroove - UGCD087
MATRiX: 328827 DISC MANUFACTURING SERVICES LDR DF01 DFM02
with log/cue/nfo/m3u/sfv/300 dpi scans.
Maximum Volume Music (dot) com adds . . .
Literally as I was listening to "Teeth" for the final time before writing this, news
broke that Liz Truss is on the front page of the Torygraph tomorrow, with a 4000
word essay claiming "left wing economists" brought her down. Yeah, cos those hedge
fund managers and speculating wankers that brought us all to our knees in 2008 are
famously socialists, aren't they?
I was scrolling through Twitter and someone I follow on there quote tweeted this
over the news: "Serious question?" he'd said. "Why do we put up with these
inadequate little morons playing out their petty fucking vanities and wrecking
what's left of the country in the process?"
It's something that gets said a lot in our house: why would anyone vote for these
bastards? The answer lies in "Happy John". Track five on this here shindig from
Ginger. "Happy John, believes the news, and what they say in the interviews." And a
little later: "I wanna be a moron."
That's the anger that bursts forth from this - and at this point, we'd best explain
what "this" is. Mention of Twitter was deliberate , as that is where I found out
that Ginger was putting out a 16 track album on Bandcamp for 24 hours. "Tell all
your old school punk mates" he'd said yesterday.
So now we're all caught up, right? I paid my 12 pounds like everyone else.
He wasn't lying, wasn't the boy. This is proper old school punk, but it's also got
the trademark melody that’s he's always had. I read an interview with Ginger once
where he said it came naturally, and what happens here underlines that.
"Not My Country" sets the tone. Nasty, vicious, yet somewhere in there there's a
hook. And a sense of desolation. "I can't identify with this isle" he spits, somehow
mournfully, and as someone who renounced his membership of the Labour Party a couple
of years back, I can relate to the broad thesis here.
"Straight To Hate" continues the theme. "Control is a narcotic" goes its key line,
over an abrasive guitar. Indeed, its all abrasive. In Wildhearts terms its "Endless
Nameless" without the deliberate attempt to mislead and hide. "Digital Elimination"
for example, is Agnostic Front if they were English. Thrash? Yeah. This is hardcore
punk.
There's a nine second song: "Art Imitating Life Imitating Art Garfunkel Imitating
Alex Lifeson Imitating Art" and any comparisons with Napalm Death are probably
welcomed. "Underfoot" rockets along and you could imagine this as a Wildhearts
b-side back in the day. "Somethin's Telling Me Something" is one of the best here
and Ginger's vocals haven’t sounded this harsh in a long time.
"No" is another beauty. Happy to sniff glue with The Ramones but equally ready to
mug them, you, whoever before the end. Like all of them, you imagine its written
from a personal standpoint.
Clocking in at just 25 minutes, this is an out even quicker than "Reign In Blood",
but its striking how fully formed the songs are, "I Shit You Not, My Friend" or
"Gloriously True" are examples of the form. There’s nothing approaching fat on them.
Pared to the bone and the latter sounds like a gang you wouldn’t want to cross.
The bass on "Witch Hunt" is perfect, and the bile with which Ginger attacks the
court of social media is stunning ("next day he's part of a lynch mob... two faces,
both of them hideous") comes from a place of experience, you’d imagine, given what
happened to him in the autumn. This is payback and it sounds sweet.
"Allenationwide" and "D.R.U.G.U.K" both prove there’s no letting up in energy -
indeed it would be interesting to know if they were written specifically for this or
these were songs that he’s had for years and not used as nothing fitted. Until now.
"This Is Survival" returns to a theme he's had for decades, relationships in the
modern world, and "Tubular Bellend" is doubtless the best song title in 2023. The
song matches up. "Teeth", though, saves its very best for last. "Thoughts And
Prayers" ("I don't give a shit but Jesus cares" is the next line) excoriates the US
right wing: "I think all lives matter, especially if they're white" he screams and
if anything sums the seething, yet laser guided rage, that underscores this record
its that line.
This is 2023. And 2023 is nasty, its violent and its uneasy as it is unequal. Music
should sound like this in the post-truth era.
I mentioned Napalm Death above, and I saw them recently, opening for Volbeat and
Skindred. Barney Greenway even acknowledged their presence on the bill was
incongruous, and there'll be those who don't like "Teeth" because its too heavy, too
angry, too harsh, whatever. It does stick out in the Ginger canon, but not as far,
as "Mutation", say, did.
My own personal relationship with Ginger's solo material is akin to that of
supporting a football team (ironically, I listened to "Teeth" on the way back from
watching mine lose today) its not always great, but you still turn up for the next
one, because sometimes they reward you with a gem like this.
Rating: as ever, no Ginger or Wildhearts release is marked out of ten on this site.
It means more to me than that.
Ripper's Notes:
Originally released digitally only in '23 on Bandcamp, available for one day only.
This is ripped from the 2025 CD release.
With shipping from the UK to the Mojave Desert, it cost me more than $2 a minute.
But, it's Ginger, so it's worth it (mostly).
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