THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “For Bored Animal, His Lordship decided to streamline their sound — forgoing things like harmonies, a rockabilly influence, and songs over four minutes long — and didn’t worry about making the music perfect.
Conceived and recorded live in under two weeks at Edwyn Collins’ studio in the Highlands of Scotland with engineer Sean Reed — and mixed by David Wrench (Manic Street Preachers, Let’s Eat Grandma, Blur, Baxter Dury) — the resultant album crams multiple ideas into its 11 concise songs.
On the opening title track, clanging guitars and drums rattle the speakers before the song takes off like a screaming bottle rocket. From there, singer-guitarist James Walbourne and drummer Kris Sonne race through ferocious songs with clever lyrics, which lean into scorching rock ’n’ roll (the abrasive Old Romantic, the needling Downertown), distorted punk (the ramshackle Marc-Andre Léclerc), tornadic noise-rock (Weirdo In The Park), throttling garage-blues riffs and feral howls (The Sadness of King Kong), and even psychedelic fantasias (Derek E. Fudge).
As with their debut, Bored Animal makes room for an instrumental (the album-closing Western noir Gin And Fog) and Sonne contributes lead vocals to a track (the aforementioned Derek E. Fudge).
And while Bored Animal’s songs take cues from vintage rock ’n’ roll, the album is decidedly not a retro rehash or homage to the past. When His Lordship make music, their mighty, rambunctious roar emerges naturally, realising that to leave in something that’s a mistake is where the magic is.
More than anything, His Lordship embrace the idea that everything is fleeting, so the best way to live — and make music — is to seize the day, trust their instincts and aim to deliver on the promise of early rock ’n’ roll: Up-and-at-’em songs which do not outstay their welcome, preferring to leave the listener viscerally thrilled, confused and hungry for more. Bored Animal delivers on that promise.”
