Cargo Records

Bad Ideas

Since a heroic entrance and confused reception last year with their disjointed angular sludge album "...Ma", Vile Imbeciles took shelter amidst simultaneous storms of abuse and praise and reached into their now colossal archive of unreleased material. With the struggle of creation splitting them into a four piece, they return with an element of simplicity in their stride. Incomprehensively, they have learnt to harness their surreal and purposefully crippled musical intent into a pulsating, natural intelligence.

This is an act that came less from necessity than from virtuosity, and the mutual hatred of marginalisation. Andy Huxley is probably best well known – though perhaps to his displeasure – for hi stint as founder member and main songwriter of 80’s matchbox b-line disaster, who by some miracle were actually a chart band. James Hair left East Anglias glorious fens at the tender age of 18 and headed to the capital to make an unholy bass rumble with young London upstarts Neils Children . “Their debut album is a thrillingly deranged, corpse-rousing racket, an inspired meshing of art skronking, prog/black metal, free jazz, no wave and hardcore...