Oliver Twist, Ripper Street, “Bull’s-eye!” Steam Punk stalwarts The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing’ open another chapter of Victorian, street slicing, underworld verse. The tracks on this ye olde Rocker attacks horrible histories with boat hooks and social injustice flamed body blows. The decency doors are kicked open with the fast-paced ‘Supply And Demand’ the congealed message sticks to the ribs like a blood starved leech. The disposing of unwanted newborn (in the River Thames) is addressed in ‘Baby Farmer’, the riff is from Batman (1970’s) and the vocals from Bill Sikes. ‘Hidden’ drifts between softly spoken and canal deep voices before primal screams welcome religion into this bowels of London ditty.
The double cross, keep em in the dark politics of ’Disease Control’ has a common friend with the modern day NHS Tory Fagin aka Jeremy Hunt. The song may be based in Victorian Times but the message is desperately close to 2018. ‘Obscene Fucking Machine’ is Royal tale of vice, secrecy and, well fucking whereas ‘Occam’s Razor’ searches for Ripper facts lost in the East Ends smokey back streets. ‘God Is In The Bottom Line’ thrashes like Slayer in the children’s Workhouse, it’s followed by the satanic spreading of radiation in the medical melody of ‘There She Glows’. ‘There’s Going To Be A Revolution’ rounds off this brutally bizarre barrel of first-class Punk from a third class, no pot to piss in, payday loan perspective. ‘Double Negative’ exhales the vile stench of 1888 poverty, death, canals, smog and sewage on to our twenty-first-century tongues and the taste is depressingly relevant.